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What is the bay between the main part of Mexico and its own yucatan peninsula Mexico?
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What is the peninsula in Mexico that extends to the Gulf of Mexico?
The Yucatan peninsula extends from the main body of Mexico into the Gulf of Mexico. To a certain extent, the nations of Belize and Guatemala are part of this peninsula.
What is the two main ruins in Mexico?
Teotihuacan in central Mexico, on the outskirts of Mexico City.Chichen Itza on the Yucatan peninsula, in southeastern Mexico.
Where is the town Puerto Morelos located?
Puerto Morelos is located in Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. The town and sea port is located about 36 kilometers south of Cancun and is the main port between the mainland of Yucatan and the island of Cozumel.
What is the main language in Yucatan Mexico?
mayan
What is difference between peninsula and a bay?
A peninsula is a landform surrounded by water on three sides, while a bay is a body of water partially enclosed by land. Peninsulas jut out into bodies of water, while bays are indentations in the shoreline where the land curves inward.
What are the two main peninsulas of Mexico?
Yucatan and Baja
When did the Maya build their great cities?
For the most part, the Mayas built their greatest cities on the Yucatan peninsula that in now part of Mexico. These places were tropical lowlands within what is now called tropical rain forests. When the Spanish explorers and conquistadors arrived in the early sixteenth century, the Mayas were still in control of a small area on the Northern end of the Yucatan peninsula. The Aztecs, the Tribe that first encountered Cortes' dominated the main part of what us now Mexico.
What is the crops of the Zapotec of Mexico?
Just like every culture in Mesoamerica (Central ans Southern Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula and most of Central America), Zapotec's main crop was corn (maize), followed by chili peppers and beans. Other crops included cocoa and several varieties of squash.
Why do Yucatan peninsula have sinkholes?
Because Yucatan is a flat land mostly conformed of limestone, which is a material with high solubility to water. When it rains, among several millenia the water infiltration will excavate underground caverns and sinkholes that are usually known as cenotes.
What is the main difference between the upper peninsula and the lower peninsula?
the difference is that the upper peninsula is up and the lower peninsula is low
Where is the island of Holbox?
Holbox Island is located on the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. It's main industry is fishing and is part of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.
What are the two main vegetation zones found on the Yucatan Peninsula?
Both tropical forest and scrub forest. Scrub forest is limited to the northwestern section of the peninsula, due to wind currents (e.g. lower amounts of rainfall).
