Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University
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Izamal is a celebrated colonial town about 70 kilometers (40 miles) east of Merida. One of its distinctive features is the bright yellow color of most of its downtown buildings.
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| Now this is what the place needs - some color! |
 | The monastery of San Antonio de Padua was built atop the old Maya acropolis and was completed in 1561. |
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 | These are views east of Izamal on the way to Chichen Itza. Yucatan is actually pretty dry, all the water is subsurface in the karst aquifers, so there's a lot of open scrub and bedrock is rarely far below the surface. |
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