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    The Yucatán Platform or Yucatán Shelf is a geologic or physiographic province, and a continental and carbonate platform, in the Maya Block of the southernmost...
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    The Yucatán Peninsula (/ˌjuːkəˈtɑːn, -ˈtæn/ YOO-kə-TA(H)N, UK also /ˌjʊk-/ YUU-; Spanish: Península de Yucatán [peˈninsula ðe ʝukaˈtan]) is a large peninsula...
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    most extensive karstlands of the North American continent' i.e. the Yucatán Platform. The Lowlands are believed to fully or partially comprehend at least...
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    [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore, but the crater is named after...
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    Maya Block (redirect from Yucatan Block)
    southern extreme. The Block's most prominent karstic landform is the Yucatán Platform to its north.[citation needed] Relatively less prominent karstic formations...
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    The Caste War of Yucatán or ba'atabil kichkelem Yúum (1847–1901) began with the revolt of native Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula against Hispanic...
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    Chichen Itza (category Maya sites in Yucatán)
    Chichén Itzá is located in the eastern portion of Yucatán state in Mexico. The northern Yucatán Peninsula is karst, and the rivers in the interior all...
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    Gulf of Mexico (category Landforms of Yucatán)
    stable Florida Platform was not covered by the sea until the latest Jurassic or the beginning of Cretaceous time. The Yucatán Platform was emergent until...
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    Cenote (category Geography of Yucatán)
    and platforms with young post-Paleozoic limestone with little soil development. The term cenote, originally applying only to the features in Yucatán, has...
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    Campeche Bank is part of the Gulf of Mexico and extends from the Yucatan Straits in the east to the Tabasco-Campeche Basin in the west. The Campeche ocean...
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    Ik Kil (category Natural history of Yucatán)
    outside Pisté in the Tinúm Municipality, Yucatán, Mexico. It is located in the northern center of the Yucatán Peninsula and is part of the Ik Kil Archeological...
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    17°15' north of the equator and 88°45' west of the Prime Meridian on the Yucatán Peninsula. It borders the Caribbean Sea to the east, with 386 km of coastline...
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    Yucatan Platform is a Cretaceous to Oligocene carbonate platform. Uplift started in the Oligocene and lasted till the Pleistocene. Today the platform...
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  • Chiapas-Guatemala Highlands Gulf Coast Plain And Yucatan Peninsula Pitted Lowlands Yucatan Platform East Coast Andean Mountain System Northern Andes Cordillera...
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  • Thumbnail for Teya Mérida railway station
    Teya Mérida is a train station in Kanasín Municipality, Yucatán. Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced the Tren Maya project in his 2018 presidential...
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    Guatemala and into northwestern Honduras, thereby encompassing all of the Yucatan Peninsula and its abutting plains (including all of Belize). The plain...
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    connecting Mérida, Yucatán and Cancún, Quintana Roo. Valladolid serves as a station on Section 4 of the Maya Train, in the state of Yucatán. According to the...
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    platforms are the Bahama Banks under which the platform is roughly 8 km thick, the Yucatan Peninsula which is up to 2 km thick, the Florida platform,...
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    Ekʼ Balam (category Maya sites in Yucatán)
    a Yucatec-Maya archaeological site within the municipality of Temozón, Yucatán, Mexico. It lies in the Northern Maya lowlands, 25 kilometres (16 mi) north...
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    366667°N 93.783333°W / 20.366667; -93.783333 Location Bay of Campeche Yucatán Platform Part of Campeche Bank Offshore water bodies Bay of Campeche Gulf of...
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    The Province of Yucatán (/ˌjuːkəˈtɑːn, -ˈtæn/ YOO-kə-TA(H)N, UK also /ˌjʊk-/ YUU-; Spanish: Provincia de Yucatán [pɾoˈβinsja ðe ʝukaˈtan]), or the Captaincy...
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  • numerous resident bird species. Rio Bravo sits atop an extension of the Yucatán Platform, which is composed mostly of Cretaceous to early Pleistocene limestone...
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    Northern Boundary Faults, and possibly an aquifer contiguous with that of the Yucatán Peninsula. The Mountains 'are the only source of igneous and metamorphic...
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    Coba (Spanish: Cobá) is an ancient Maya city on the Yucatán Peninsula, located in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The site is the nexus of the largest...
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    Le Plongeons were in Yucatán during the Caste War, a conflict between the Maya, called the Chan Santa Cruz, and the army of Yucatán. When they traveled...
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    Maya civilization (category History of the Yucatán Peninsula)
    rulership. In the northern Yucatán, individual rule was replaced by a ruling council formed from elite lineages. In the southern Yucatán and central Petén, kingdoms...
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    El Castillo, Chichen Itza (category Buildings and structures in Yucatán)
    de Landa in the manuscript known as Yucatán at the Time of the Spanish Encounter (Relación de las cosas de Yucatán). Almost three centuries later, John...
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    Campeche (category Yucatán Peninsula)
    southeast Mexico, it is bordered by the states of Tabasco to the southwest, Yucatán to the northeast, Quintana Roo to the east, by the Petén department of...
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    Coral reef (redirect from Platform reef)
    stretching 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) from Isla Contoy at the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula down to the Bay Islands of Honduras The New Caledonia Barrier...
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    Uxmal (category Maya sites in Yucatán)
    and Tikal in Guatemala. It is located in the Puuc region of the western Yucatán Peninsula, and is considered one of the Maya cities most representative...
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