The large peninsula of Yucatan in south(east)ern Mexico has its own nature and history. Its forest grows on limestone, which drains the rains, but lots of large, deep natural cavities, called cenotes, dating from the super-size meteor whose crash on Yucatan wiped out the dinosaurs, and some underground rivers connection those, still being mapped by speleologists and satellite pictures, 'irrigate' a luscious vegetation, feeding an exuberant fauna, starring jaguars, the colourful quetzal bird and noisy monkeys. The spending civilization of many Maya city state kingdoms crushed down due to arid climate change.
—KGF Vissers