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Sima de las Cotorras (in English: Sinkhole of the Parrots/Parakeets) is a sinkhole located in the El Ocote Biosphere Reserve in western Chiapas, southern Mexico. It is one of a number of sinkholes in the area, all produced by tectonic and erosive processes on the region's limestone. Although not the largest and deepest of the area's sinkholes ...
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A cenote (English: / s ɪ ˈ n oʊ t i / or / s ɛ ˈ n oʊ t eɪ /; Latin American Spanish:) is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater. The term originated on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where the ancient Maya commonly used cenotes for water supplies, and occasionally for ...
A large sinkhole that appeared in late May in a farm in central Mexico has already grown larger than a football field authorities say it is likely to continue expanding. The Mexican government has ...
Playa de Gulpiyuri – a flooded sinkhole with an inland beach located near Llanes, Spain; 2018 Surabaya City sinkhole – a 30 m (98 ft) wide and 15 m (49 ft) deep sinkhole opened up on Gubeng Road in Surabaya, Indonesia during construction work on December 18, 2018.
Hurricane conditions made a powerful landfall in Acapulco on Mexico’s Pacific coastline on Wednesday morning and sustained 165-mph winds are expected to sweep the south coast between San Jose ...
Playa del Carmen, known colloquially as 'Playa', is a resort city located along the Caribbean Sea in the southeastern state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is part of the municipality of Solidaridad . As of 2020, the city's population was just over 300,000 people during 2020, a small yet thriving portion of which are foreign immigrants .
The sinkhole, at least 50 feet wide and 30 feet deep, opened on Iverson Road just off the 118 Freeway. The Los Angeles Fire Department rescued two people from the car; the two in the truck escaped ...