Town in the Mexican state of Yucatán
Municipal Seat in Yucatán, Mexico
Chicxulub Pueblo (Mayan pronunciation: [tʃʼikʃuluɓ] Ch’ik Xulub ) is a town , and surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Yucatán .
At the census of 2010, the town had a population of 4,080 people.
The center of the Chicxulub Impact Crater (approx 21°20'N 89°30'W) is off the Yucatan coast, near Chicxulub Puerto
Chicxulub is most famous for being near the geographic center of the Chicxulub crater , an impact crater discovered by geologists on the Yucatán Peninsula and extending into the ocean. It was created by the impact some 66 million years ago of the Chicxulub impactor , an asteroid or comet which caused[ 2] [ 3] the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event , which led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs . The coastal village (or puerto ) of Chicxulub , in the neighboring municipality of Progreso, lies almost exactly on the geographic center of the crater.
The name Chicxulub is from the Yucatec Maya language meaning 'the devil's flea'.[ 4]
References
^ "Population and Housing Census 2010" . INEGI.org . National Institute of Statistics and Geography. 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2018 .
^ "International Consensus—Link Between Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction Is Rock Solid" . Lunar and Planetary Institute . 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2014-11-27 .
^ Renne, Paul R.; Deino, Alan L.; Hilgen, Frederik J.; Kuiper, Klaudia F.; Mark, Darren F.; Mitchell, William S.; Morgan, Leah E.; Mundil, Roland; Smit, Jan (7 February 2013). "Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary". Science . 339 (6120): 684–687. Bibcode :2013Sci...339..684R . doi :10.1126/science.1230492 . PMID 23393261 . S2CID 6112274 .
^ Victoria Bricker (1998). A Dictionary of the Maya Language as Spoken in Hocabá, Yucatán . pp. 83, 264. ISBN 9780874805697 .
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