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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 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.
Approximately 25 to 50% of the trees lose their leaves during the annual dry season. Manilkara zapota is the most common forest tree; others include Brosimum alicastrum , Pimenta dioica , Lonchocarpus castilloi , Pouteria campechiana , Swietenia macrophylla , Alseis yucatanensis , Zuelania guidonia , Cedrela odorata , Swartzia cubensis ...
Mangrove trees in the ecoregion are characteristically red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle), white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), Black mangrove (Avicennia germinans), and button mangrove (Conocarpus erectus). [1] Also present are 'pygmy mangrove' that includes swamp sawgrass (Cladium mariscus) and spikerushes (Eleocharis cellulosa).
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In total, the reserve is home to nearly 70,000 plant and animal species, making it one of the most biodiverse places in the world. [ 4 ] The biosphere is home to 86 species of mammals, 18 of which can be found in the Official Registry of Mexican Ecology, a resource that outlines flora and fauna that are in danger of extinction, rare, threatened ...