yucatan
yooh kuh tan
- n a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula
- n a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
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- 19th-Century British Shipwreck Found Off Mexico
The British ship was carrying mail to Bermuda when it sank off the Yucatan Peninsula 164 years ago. Continue reading ?
June 12, 2013 - Discovery News - NASA's TRMM Satellite sees Andrea's heavy rains in Cuba, US East Coast
( NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ) The TRMM data showed rainfall totals on the order of 400 to 500 mm (~16 to 20 inches) stretching from the eastern tip of the Yucatan to western Cuba and over the southeast Gulf of Mexico.
June 11, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Quotes
- Max Mayfield in USA Today
It's going to be a long couple of days here for the Yucatan Peninsula,hurricane center director Max Mayfield said. - Victor Hugo in Louisville Courier-Journal
Eighty percent of people in the Yucatan sleep in a hammock,said guide Victor Hugo Lizama. "A bed -- ach, you torture me!" - Gerta Keller in United Press International
The Chicxulub impact hit the Yucatan about 300,000 years before the mass extinction that included the dinosaurs and, therefore, could not have caused it,Keller said.