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Your estate agglomerates jungles, vast savannas, wetlands, rivers and intricate sculptures of inclement weather. However, it is the representation of a tropical forged under the powerful influence of the Caribbean. The fascinating character of its organic composition shows a mysterious Caribbean influence.

The department is part of a single structural mass of the Yucatan Peninsula. It consists of a base of very old rocks, whose ages can be traced back 370 million years. Above them were located in at least two great periods of deposition, large volumes of lime salts, mainly calcium carbonates and sulfates.

Both territories are a vast platform, which was born when on the east coast of North America rose the mountains called Acadiana. This platform, as has been interpreted, was part of the “tiny” tectonic plate known as East Maya. Its setting, slow evolution, ancestral form the socket that is the oldest basement.

Petén-Yucatán the territory has originated in the powerful Acadian uplift of the seafloor then was colossally sunk to its conversion into the seabed. A tremendous push from below, and returns to dry land. Another collapse, and once again the deep sea, from which would emerge for the third time. Meanwhile, the microplate tectonics also faced the task of moving on the surface, looking for accommodation in a slow, inexorable process, one of whose time is what we see now, like a photograph that freezes the geological time. Read the rest of this entry »