The center of the Chicxulub Impact Crater (approx 21°20'N 89°30'W) is off the Yucatan coast, near Chicxulub Puerto.
Chicxulub Puerto (IPA:[tʃikʃuˈlub]ⓘ) is a small coastal town in Progreso Municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is located on the Gulf of Mexico, in the northwestern region of the state about 8 km (5 mi) east of the city port of Progreso, the municipality seat, and 42 km (26 mi) north of the city of Mérida, the state capital. According to the INEGI census conducted in 2020, the port town had a population of 7,591 inhabitants.
Chicxulub Puerto 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 the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which led to the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.[1][2] Chicxulub Puerto lies almost exactly on the geographic center of the crater. The town of Chicxulub Pueblo, located farther inland in the peninsula, is often confused with this coastal town.
The name Chicxulub is from the Yucatec Maya language meaning 'the devil's flea'.[3]
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ChicxulubPuerto (IPA: [tʃikʃuˈlub] ) is a small coastal town in Progreso Municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is located on the Gulf of Mexico...
(or puerto) of Chicxulub, in the neighboring municipality of Progreso, lies almost exactly on the geographic center of the crater. The name Chicxulub is...
The Chicxulub crater (IPA: [t͡ʃikʃuˈluɓ] cheek-shoo-LOOB) is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. Its center is offshore...
Chicxulub Pueblo Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (196.72 km2) of land and located roughly 25 km north of the...
higher-density circular alignment of cenotes overlies the measured rim of the Chicxulub crater. This crater structure, identified from the alignment of cenotes...
have also been implicated in several mass extinctions. The prehistoric Chicxulub impact, 66 million years ago, is believed to not only be the cause of...
lists 18 properties on its tentative list. Tourism in the United States Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory within the United States. Midway Atoll...
Matsui, Takafumi (2004). "Evidence for ocean water invasion into the Chicxulub crater at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary". Meteoritics & Planetary Science...
geologic feature of the Yucatán peninsula is the Chicxulub crater. The scientific consensus is that the Chicxulub impactor was responsible for the Cretaceous–Paleogene...
cenotes have formed in limestone deposited in shallow seas created by the Chicxulub meteorite's impact. Dolina – Slavic toponym (from Slovene language dòla:"valley"...
emissions. In comparison, humans have emitted more greenhouse gases than the Chicxulub meteorite impact event which caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Transport...
communities, the Scientific and Technological Consultative Forum. The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in...
Naucalpan Teotihuacán Texcoco Toluca Coatzacoalcos Minatitlán Xalapa Chicxulub (both the town and the impact crater) Izamal Oxkutzcab Tekax Ticul Tizimín...
soon after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event associated with the Chicxulub impactor. All origins of arboreality (e.g. in Hyloidea and Natatanura)...
Lagerstätte and killing field capturing the first minutes and hours after the Chicxulub impactor and initiation of the KPg extinction event Balabansai Formation...
April 6 – The first known dinosaur fossil linked to the very day of the Chicxulub impact is reported by palaeontologists. April 7 The UN votes by 93–24...
location of the impact site of the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs in Chicxulub. The most famous structure is the Temple of the Seven Dolls, so named...
nannoplankton, trace fossils and elemental abundance data from within the Chicxulub crater, dated to approximately the first 200,000 years of the Paleocene...
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