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People who live there now are mostly the modern descendants of the Maya. The peninsula is largely a low, flat, limestone land rising to 500 feet high in the south. To the north and west the plain continues as the Campeche Bank, stretching under shallow water . The eastern coast rises in low cliffs in the north and there are bays and paralleled by islands in the south. Cozumel is the largest island. |
The
Yucatán peninsula is about 70,000 square miles, mostly in
SE Mexico, separating the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico