The Geography of Yucatán explained

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[@id104335409]

Remember when the National Geographic and the Discovery channel used to show productions like this? Younger viewers might not believe this, but documentaries were shown on television and that was how we learned about stuff on the other side of the globe. Crazy huh?

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Sadly they have to do content for views not for learning as that is how they can generate revenue. The science channel is good and also NOVA, The only one show I like from Discovery is the Treehouse.

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Facts

[@matthias4223]

So true

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[@reinebautistamercado4286]

He needs to work on his diction first. Or he just needs to put subtitles hard-coded in his videos. His videos are interesting, but hardly watchable unless you turn on KZbin subtitles.

[@AndrewTheMachine]

Nah. Let's keep this for ourselves.

[@victormcperebo2727]

Definitely recommend doing Mount Cameroon next. The geological history behind it is very interesting.

[@marielmorenolarrinaga862]

I’m Mexican, but I’m from the north, and so I’m exposed to a lot of media from the US; I remember learning as a young child on Chanels like NatGeo and Discovery that the Mayan civilization had completely disappeared (???? and I believed it! When I turned 16 I realized it was a lie! The Mayan people are still very much alive, and in many towns they still speak different dialects of the Mayan Lenguage. They shape the land they live in, and have an amazing cuisine, with a wide variety of unique dishes. I had to relearn a big part of my own country’s culture.

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[@DaedricNZ]

That segue to the sponsored segment was smooth

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[@justincollins3042]

As always, a very well put together and interesting vid. Thanks.

[@danx3004]

Central Mexico doesn’t have a desert climate.

[@blotas1904]

Nice series ! I hope it continues

[@jibburz3030]

Just found this channel it's sick

[@discgolfillustrated2640]

Excellent presentation, thank you

[@firefrost8334]

Great video! I always enjoy your uploads and its quite the coincidence that I've actually been reading about the Yucatán recently so was happy to see you upload. I do wish you did a longer format version though. I appreciate you try to make shorter form content as its more easily accessible however I feel like a lot of important things were glossed over in this one such as the Stromatolites in Lake Bacalar dating back over 3.5 Billion years. Additionally many of the species present in the region are still understudied or completely unknown.

[@stallion182]

Really Interesting video. Thank you!

[@hanjizoe2648]

Never realized how similar the Yucatan is to my home state of Florida. They obviously have their differences, but still, they both feel familiar to one another. Especially the shot at 3:45 ; If you told me that is a picture of a city in Florida, I would've believed you! Lol Lastly, thank you so much for making such an informative, yet short, simplified video on such a unique subject. Really love it, hope your channel grows a lot from these! 🙏

[@arturowagner4728]

I noticed the same thing on a visit to Cancún....

[@arturowagner4728]

I noticed the same thing on a visit to Cancún....

[@ChristopherJohnsonArtist]

But the culture is completely different. People there rarely eat seafood. They mostly eat pork and turkey. I'm surprised you are judging what it looks like based on resort hotels designed for foreigners.

[@hanjizoe2648]

@ChristopherJohnsonArtist You make it sound as if I said they're the same thing. You clearly didn't read my comment correctly because I said they're SIMILAR in many ways, I even mentioned how they have their DIFFERENCES.. smh

[@denisds130]

I love your videos! I would be more than happy to watch even longer ones (20-30 min.).

[@FactSpark]

A 20+ minutes documentary about Peru is coming in a couple weeks 🙂

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[@leonardsolis9876]

What a great documentary, so many things u never would even think about.

[@alejandroq.8494]

Great video , would love to see you take on Mexico’s other geographical areas

[@funchable212]

At it again with another banger

[@Insideruins]

Great video!! I wish more people could visit us.

[@tonicastel2390]

Very interesting!

[@iquecanseco8876]

Love it!!

[@PingSharp]

I love this man

[@jimmshorts]

cenotes pronunciation "see noh tays"

[@dyasion]

Please do the carpathian basin

[@latinsb4u]

I grew up in Merida Yucatan, we are the only ones to have a Costco with a Cenote (water natural sinkhole) just at the entrance of the store

[@jimmyconway8025]

I lived in Yucatan! In Puerto morelos which is about 15 minutes south of the cancun airport. Great town! Very chill and beautiful! Yucatan is also very interesting place and beautiful especially the cenotes . It is flat i can remember driving into the jungle and south in the jungle going to Belize and thinking how odd it is not to be able to see above the trees. There no elevation or even overpasses. The state of quintana roo Wasnt even a state until 1974 And in 1918 mayas revolted Took federal army 18 months lost alot of people to hack their way through the jungle from Mexico city. Put down the revolt then had to trek back to the capital. Brutal. Good video

[@TheDanEdwards]

Lots of little things wrong in this video. It may seem pedantic, but the map of the continents at the time of the impact of the asteroid should be of the late Cretaceous, not today's map. The extinction numbers given are described as if they are all species since life on this planet, but instead should be described as being for the end of the Cretaceous. The tropical cyclones are rotating in the wrong direction. Etc., etc., etc. All these errors are easily correctable, but they should have been caught in editing.

[@JSSguy]

Why (not how) did you have the time to find all that and make a comment that’s longer than the speech I gave at graduation

[@slypen7450]

I was operating vessels off the north west area of the Yucatan and just as the nautical charts confirmed the depth of the water goes from 2 fathoms to 6000 fathoms in the space of a few miles. I stopped and dove in and found a huge cowery. SO WHERES THE PLATEAU ?

[@Mamu0703]

Love learning more about my wonderful although very hot and humid Yucatan peninsula. I wished Merida and Valladolid had been mentioned.

[@gnolan4281]

Excellent macro perspective. If the narrator could speak just a little more slowly I would not need to struggle to understand his words.

[@Doktorwh0]

pls do Hudson Bay!

[@florinadrian5174]

How do you build a train track over a land riddled with sinkholes?

[@John5209]

VERY Carefully!!!!😊

[@FactSpark]

Massive concrete piles unfortunately

[@ChristopherJohnsonArtist]

Not very successfully, which is why there have been a lot of lawsuits trying to stop it, but AMLO has been forcing it through every way he can. There has been extensive damage to the forests as well as contamination of the cenotes and caves especially in Quntana Roo.

[@CICM_920]

Since when was that there?

[@mogyesz9]

Great video, but I dont think using modern maps at 06:40 was a good choice.

[@jakepiecuch9722]

The geography explained: Dinosaurs go bye bye

[@wpower7435]

It's crazy when you think about it the meteor impact in the yucatan made humanity possible to thrive dinosaurs would probably still be around if this didn't happen 😮

[@zeferinomedina6737]

HE SAID "SEE NOTES" 🤣🤣🤣

[@akhilrajt]

there is a huge problem in this video when the astroid struck earth land map was not like this you could animate this more accurate by including the old map

[@leonardsolis9876]

15 kilometers seems so small for something that killed off the dinosaurs and much of the planet's life.

[@AlbertoFolres]

In your thumbnail you put the Yucatán Peninsula, but that's not the State of Yucatán, 2 different things

[@lukegleason7156]

I’m watching this while on vacation in Cancun lol

[@billwilson-es5yn]

The Yucatan used to be connected to Texas until rifting broke up Pangea. It moved southeast as ocean spreading widened the Gulf of Mexico until making contact with Mexico. That didn't create any mountains due to the spreading coming to an end shortly later.

[@janvanhoyk8375]

@6:22 pulverizing

[@McGussen]

The Yucatan is the erect cousin of flaccid Florida according to my 6th grade geography teacher.

[@MaxFung]

i still think the maya train is cool and way better than a big highway for cars

[@FactSpark]

True

[@Spnozilla]

Basically the holy land for all Cenozoic life

[@marcuscole1994]

Because of the impact??

[@nicolasmuniz3571]

Love your videos as always but I am begging you once again to please pronounce words correctly. Cenote is not pronounced "see-notes".

[@TheECSH]

Are you from Germany?!

[@FactSpark]

Yes

[@Zantigableiaust]

Please talk about the geography of Indonesia and Filipina, cause there not much information we can access on this, why they always eruption there and why there always earthquake happening there.. I mean please..

[@lewizzrocks]

It’s “say-no-tess” not “sea-notes”

[@Lucille-bg9xh]

I think most of the information is about Yucatan. Everything else is parts of what happened to Yucatan.

[@JasperKlijndijk]

Comment for algorithm

[@edbardoe2195]

Some info, hold the politics

[@Iktius]

The Yucatan peninsula is the debris of the meteore which exterminated the dinosaurs 🦖🦕

[@raycuevas7577]

Can you do the geography of the Dominican Republic?

[@TheAnarchitek]

The Yucatan, and the east coast of Mexico, up into the southern US (below Tennessee's southern border), out to the Bahamas, and back along the Cayman Trench (including Cuba), to the serpentine trail of the plate boundary, was quite possibly "Atlantis", about 4,250 years ago, sitting off the northwest corner of Africa, outside the "Gates of Hercules", before being swept "westward" (modern directions), to mate with the other pieces of North America. This was the opening salvo in a centuries-long nightmare.

[@shallbetterdj]

Nicaragua has no mountains, the cordillera is a lie

[@diegodipp]

This place is boring as fuck, no mountains, no rivers, no seasons, warm and humid as fuck. Every cool place is private property and expensive to visit. All locals hate living here but there is no alternative because it’s the only part of mexico with good salaries if you don’t have a career, it’s only good if you visit for vacations but being born here in a low income family leads you to eternal crippling depression.

[@I.Odnamra]

Im no climate activist but I do hope they leave these ecosystems alone. If people want to travel and explore these unique locations, they should do so at their own expense while being inconvenienced and unacommodated.

[@McGussen]

Also, planets all fluids...about 95% fluid too...all of them are that are spherical. If they weren't mostly fluid internally, they would maintain a spheroid shape. So, even when an asteroid or comet hits earth or one of the other planets, it disintegrates and becomes part of the internal fluids of that spheroid bubble. Planets need better definitions. If the orbiting heavenly body is spheroid, then it's liquid and must be defined accordingly to its actual substance...so that it's more described by its definition. People have really gravitated towards becoming dumber, and less intelligent, and then feeling empowered for their ignorance and stupidity. Way to go obampa!