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www.yucatan.com.mx. Diario de Yucatán is a major, regional Mexican daily newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán. [1] The newspaper covers the three Mexican states of the Yucatán Peninsula - Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Diario de Yucatán, which was launched on May 31, 1925 [2] by Carlos R. Menéndez, has a daily circulation of ...
The proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. 17th-century Franciscan historian Diego López de Cogolludo offers two theories in particular. [8] In the first one, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, having first arrived to the peninsula in 1517, inquired the name of a certain settlement and the response in Yucatec Mayan was "I don't understand", which sounded like yucatán to the ...
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Yucatán, [ b ] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán, [ c ] is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 106 separate municipalities, and its capital city is Mérida. Located on the northern part of the Yucatán Peninsula, it is bordered by the states of ...
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Free-air gravity anomaly over the Chicxulub structure (coastline and state boundaries shown as black lines) The Chicxulub crater (IPA: [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 the onshore community of Chicxulub Pueblo ...
Ocomtún is an ancient Late Classic city located on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Mexican state of Campeche.Archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of the city in June 2023, after finding the ruins of several pyramid structures measuring approximately 15 m (49 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in height in a relatively unexplored area of the state. [1]
Chetumal has become known for its traditional wood buildings, few of which survive. In Pre-Columbian times, a city called Chactemal (sometimes rendered as "Chetumal" in early European sources), probably today's Santa Rita in Belize, [6] [7] was the capital of a Maya state of the same name that roughly controlled the southern quarter of modern Quintana Roo and the northeast portion of Belize.