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Yucatan

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Yu·ca·tán  (yk-tn, -tän)
A peninsula mostly in southeast Mexico between the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It includes many Mayan and Toltec sites and is separated from Cuba by the Yucatán Channel.
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Noun1.Yucatan - a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula
Merida - the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan
2.YucatanYucatan - a peninsula in Central America extending into the Gulf of Mexico between the Bay of Campeche and the Caribbean Sea
Yucatan Peninsula
Mexico, United Mexican States - a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810


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It is not only absurd, it's cruel, to expect you to ransack old newspapers for discoveries in Yucatan, from the time when Stephens published his 'Travels in Central America'--nearly forty years since
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
Well, Mayan refers to the Mayas, an aboriginal people of Yucatan.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders by Appleton, Victor View in context
No one in the Mingott set could understand why Amy Sillerton had submitted so tamely to the eccentricities of a husband who filled the house with long- haired men and short-haired women, and, when he travelled, took her to explore tombs in Yucatan instead of going to Paris or Italy.
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