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The peninsula lies east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest point in Mexico separating the Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, from the Pacific Ocean. Some consider the isthmus to be the geographic boundary between Central America and the rest of North America, placing the peninsula in Central America. [6]
The peoples and cultures which comprised the Maya civilization spanned more than 2,500 years of Mesoamerican history, in the Maya Region of southern Mesoamerica, which incorporates the present-day nations of Guatemala and Belize, much of Honduras and El Salvador, and the southeastern states of Mexico from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec eastwards, including the entire Yucatán Peninsula.
Long Island was once a peninsula connected to North America during the great Ice Ages, and includes two large peninsulas at its east end: the South Fork and the North Fork. Cumberland Head Coney Island was an island until it was expanded through land reclamation into the Coney Island Creek , thus becoming a peninsula.
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 ...
Map of earthquakes in Mexico from 1990 to 2017. Situated atop three of the large tectonic plates that constitute the Earth's surface, Mexico is one of the most seismologically active regions on Earth. [9] The motion of these plates causes earthquakes and volcanic activity. Most of the Mexican landmass rests on the westward moving North American ...
The Maya Region is firmly bounded to the north, east, and southwest by the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean, respectively. [1] [2] It is less firmly bounded to the west and southeast by 'zones of cultural interaction and transition between Maya and non-Maya peoples.' [3] [2] The western transition between Maya and non-Maya peoples roughly corresponds to the Isthmus of ...
The Maya Forest is a tropical moist broadleaf forest that covers much of the Yucatan Peninsula, thereby encompassing Belize, northern Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico.It is deemed the second largest tropical rainforest in the Americas, after the Amazon, with an area of circa 15 million hectares (150,000 km 2), of which at least 3 million (30,000 km 2) lie within protected areas.
Its formation is thought to have 'involved [the] complex movement of [various] crustal blocks and terranes between the two pre-existing continental masses [ie North and South America].' [20] Details of the pre-Cenozoic portion of this process (170–67 million years ago), however, are not widely agreed upon.