Yucatan Peninsula


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Noun1.Yucatan Peninsula - a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean SeaYucatan Peninsula - a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
Mexico, United Mexican States - a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810
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Alberto is expected to drop between 10 and 15 inches (25 and 38 centimeters) of rain across parts of the Yucatan Peninsula and western Cuba.
Hence, a tropical storm watch was issued for the Gulf coast from Louisiana to Florida, parts of Yucatan peninsula in Mexico, including Tulum, and western Cuba.
De Anda is also director of the Gran Acuifero Maya (GAM), a project dedicated to the study and preservation of the subterranean waters of the Yucatan peninsula.
The Yucatan Peninsula, where the cave is located, reportedly still holds treasures from the ancient Mayan community.
Eight species of psittacids inhabit the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, (MacKinnon, 2005), and several of these maintain abundant populations (e.g., Galindo, 1999; Macias & Inigo, 2003; Plasencia & Escalona, 2014a).
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is poised to receive more natural gas for cleaner electric power generation from an extension of the Mayakan pipeline announced by GDF SUEZ Mexico and GE Energy Financial Services.
During the spring of 2011, I headed south to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico in search of ocellated turkeys with a bow.
Back in 1839, American traveler John Lloyd Stephens visited a series of Mayan ruins in the Yucatan Peninsula. His 1843 best-seller, "Incidents of Travel in Yucatan," still makes for fascinating reading today.
These include Tulum, a Pre-Columbian Maya walled city on cliffs, along the Yucatan Peninsula near Cancun.
We performed a serologic investigation to determine whether orthobunyaviruses commonly infect humans in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
Meyers (anthropology, Eckerd College, Florida) takes a particular village as a case study of the social conditions that prevailed in the countryside on the Yucatan Peninsula before the Mexican Revolution, which did not reach there until 1915.