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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 ...
The maximum mean annual precipitation throughout the Yucatán Peninsula occurs along the coast of the Riviera Maya with 1,500 mm (59 in) of rainfall with a general decline to the NW with only 400 mm (16 in) per year or less on the opposite side of the Peninsula. While the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán experiences a large number of tropical ...
The Spanish founded towns along the coast of modern-day Venezuela and Colombia, notably, Santa Marta in 1525 and Cartagena. From these towns they expanded inland to the lands of the Muisca in the highlands. They were less successful on several parts of the coast, where unconquered pockets remained, notably at the Rio de la Hacha and the Gulf of ...
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The mouth of Chetumal Bay is directed southward and buffered by the large Belizean island of Ambergris Caye.. Corozal Bay is a smaller inland inlet, that extends to the southwest in the upper region of Chetumal Bay.
Alonso Álvarez de Pineda (Spanish:; 1494–1520) was a Spanish conquistador and cartographer who was the first to prove the insularity of the Gulf of Mexico by sailing around its coast. In doing so he created the first map to depict what is now Texas and parts of the Gulf Coast of the United States .
Chicxulub Puerto is most famous for being near the geographic center of the Chicxulub crater, an impact crater discovered by geologists on the Yucatán Peninsula and extending into the ocean. It was created by the impact some 66 million years ago of the Chicxulub impactor , an asteroid or comet which caused the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction ...
The first Maya moved to the Peninsula circa 250 CE, from the Petén (today northern Guatemala), to settle the southeastern peninsula in the modern Bacalar, Quintana Roo. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] In 525, the Chanés (Maya group that preceded the Itza ), moved to the east of the peninsula, founding Chichén Itzá , Izamal , Motul , Ek' Balam , Ichcaanzihó ...