in what modern country is the yucatan peninsula located?
Mexico
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 The Yucatán Peninsula is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the east and by the Gulf of Mexico to the north and west . It incorporates the modern Mexican states of Yucatán , Quintana Roo and Campeche , the eastern portion of the state of Tabasco , most of the Guatemalan department of Petén , and all of Belize . Most of the peninsula is formed by a vast plain with few hills or mountains and a generally low coastline . The northwestern and northern portions of the Yucatán Peninsula experience lower rainfall than the rest of the peninsula ; these regions feature highly porous limestone bedrock resulting in less surface water . In contrast , the northeastern portion of the peninsula is characterised by forested swamplands . The northern portion of the peninsula lacks rivers , except for the Champotón River – all other rivers are located in the south . 

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 The Yucatán Peninsula is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the east and by the Gulf of Mexico to the north and west . It can be delimited by a line running from the Laguna de Términos on the Gulf coast through to the Gulf of Honduras on the Caribbean coast . It incorporates the modern Mexican states of Yucatán , Quintana Roo and Campeche , the eastern portion of the state of Tabasco , most of the Guatemalan department of Petén , and all of Belize . Most of the peninsula is formed by a vast plain with few hills or mountains and a generally low coastline . A 15 @-@ kilometre ( 9 @.@ 3 mi ) stretch of high , rocky coast runs south from the city of Campeche on the Gulf Coast . A number of bays are situated along the east coast of the peninsula , from north to south they are Ascensión Bay , Espíritu Santo Bay , Chetumal Bay and Amatique Bay . The north coast features a wide , sandy littoral zone . The extreme north of the peninsula , roughly corresponding to Yucatán State , has underlying bedrock consisting of flat Cenozoic limestone . To the south of this the limestone rises to form the low chain of Puuc Hills , with a steep initial scarp running 160 kilometres ( 99 mi ) east from the Gulf coast near Champotón , terminating some 50 kilometres ( 31 mi ) from the Caribbean coast near the border of Quintana Roo . The hills reach a maximum altitude of 170 metres ( 560 ft ) . 

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 Calakmul ( / ˌkɑːlɑːkˈmuːl / ; also Kalakmul and other less frequent variants ) is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche , deep in the jungles of the greater Petén Basin region . It is 35 kilometres ( 22 mi ) from the Guatemalan border . Calakmul was one of the largest and most powerful ancient cities ever uncovered in the Maya lowlands . 

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 Calakmul ( / ˌkɑːlɑːkˈmuːl / ; also Kalakmul and other less frequent variants ) is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche , deep in the jungles of the greater Petén Basin region . It is 35 kilometres ( 22 mi ) from the Guatemalan border . Calakmul was one of the largest and most powerful ancient cities ever uncovered in the Maya lowlands . 

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 Uxmal is a Mayan city in the Puuc Hills of Yucatán Peninsula , Mexico . The Governor 's Palace at Uxmal is often used as an exemplar of why it is important to combine ethnographic and alignment data . The palace is aligned with an azimuth of 118 ° on the pyramid of Cehtzuc . This alignment corresponds approximately to the southernmost rising and , with a much greater precision , to the northernmost setting of Venus ; both phenomena occur once every eight years . By itself this would not be sufficient to argue for a meaningful connection between the two events . The palace has to be aligned in one direction or another and why should the rising of Venus be any more important than the rising of the Sun , Moon , other planets , Sirius et cetera ? The answer given is that not only does the palace point towards significant points of Venus , it is also covered in glyphs which stand for Venus and Mayan zodiacal constellations . Moreover , the great northerly extremes of Venus always occur in late April or early May , coinciding with the onset of the rainy season . The Venus glyphs placed in the cheeks of the Maya rain god Chac , most likely referring to the concomitance of these phenomena , support the west @-@ working orientation scheme . 
