| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
|
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Geometric detail from a Mixtec tomb.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
|
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The Royal Palace.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
|
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Zapotec, Mixtec and Spanish architecture.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
Site / Event : Church of San Paolo
|
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The 16th century Church of San Paolo.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
Site / Event : Church of San Paolo
|
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The church is built on top of a Zapotec temple.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
|
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Building with Mixtec geometric patterns.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
|
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Entrance with geometric patterns.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
|
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The 14 geometric patterns at Mitla are thought to represent deities.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Mitla
|
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Some of the buildings are painted.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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Yanhuitlan is the site of one the Oaxaca Valley's many Dominican monasteries.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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The monastery at Yanhuitlan dates from the 16th century.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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The monastery resembles a fortress.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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The exterior of the monastery is elegantly carved.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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Carved statue.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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Exquisite carving.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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The walls are thick against earthquakes.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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View from the monastery.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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The interior courtyard.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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The elegant cloister.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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A fresco of St Christopher.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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The village near the monastery.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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Rolling hills near Yanhuitlan.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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The beautiful and fertile Oaxaca Valley.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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Red soil.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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Landscape near Yanhuitlan.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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Dark ridges.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yanhuitlan
|
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Hilly landscape.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Yagul is a hilltop Zapotec site.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Yagul is deserted apart from cattle.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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The site was inhabited from 400 BCE until the Spanish conquest.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Yagul was at its height around 900.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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The site has many pyramidal structures.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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The triple tomb is one of many at Yagul.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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The ball court at Yagul is the largest in the Oaxaca Valley.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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View of the deserted ancient site.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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View of the Oaxaca Valley from Yagul.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Uninhabited landscape.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Fragments of ancient sites dot the Oaxaca Valley.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Spectacular views across the valley.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Cliffs.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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The spectacular Oaxaca Valley.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Fields on the valley floor.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Rolling hills.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Valley road.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Yagul
|
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Cliff with white human figures from 250 BCE.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Dainzu
|
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Dainzu is a deserted Zapotec site dating from 300 BCE.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Dainzu
|
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The site was abandoned around 1000.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Dainzu
|
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Pyramid dating from 300 BCE.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Dainzu
|
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Partially ruined ball court.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Dainzu
|
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El Tule is a 42m high tree weighing 640 tonnes.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Dainzu
|
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The El Tule tree has a circumference of 58m and is over 2000 years old.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Oaxaca
Region : Oaxaca Valley
City / Town : Dainzu
|
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The Oaxaca Valley near Dainzu.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Chiapas Highlands
|
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Chiapas is a state in central Mexico.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Chiapas Highlands
|
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The Chiapas Highlands are Maya country.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Chiapas Highlands
|
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The region is very fertile.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Chiapas Highlands
|
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Much of the region is forest.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Chiapas Highlands
|
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The descendents of the Maya still live in the highlands.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Chiapas Highlands
|
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Forests and hills.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Chiapas Highlands
City / Town : Amatenango
|
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Amatenango is a Tzeltal village famous for its pottery.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Chiapas Highlands
City / Town : Amatenango
|
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The pottery of Amatenango is made without the use of a potter's wheel and fired by burning wood around it.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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San Cristobal de las Casas is a town at 2110m.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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The inhabitants are descendents of the Mayans.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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The people are mainly Tzotzil and Tzeltal.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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The Catholicism in the town is mixed with many pre-Hispanic rites.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Shop front.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
Site / Event : Santo Domingo Church
|
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Santo Domingo Church dominates the town.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
Site / Event : Santo Domingo Church
|
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The exterior carvings.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
Site / Event : Santo Domingo Church
|
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The church dates from the 16rh century.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Marimba originated in Southern Mexico and Guatemala.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Craft market.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Elegant buildings in the colonial centre.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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The majority inhabitants are descendants of the Maya (mainly Tzotzil and Tzeltal).
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Tzotzil family from the village of Chamula at the market.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Tzotzil family wearing the blue of Chamula.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Tzotzil people from Zinacantan wear mainly red.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Tzotzil family from Zinacantan (wearing the colours of that village).
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Tzotzil girl.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
|
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Hilltop church.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
Site / Event : Independence Day
|
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Crowds watching the Independence Day parades.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
Site / Event : Independence Day
|
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Two women.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
Site / Event : Independence Day
|
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Children from a local primary school.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
Site / Event : Independence Day
|
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Drummer boys.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
Site / Event : Independence Day
|
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Drummer girls.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : San Cristobal de las Casas
Site / Event : Independence Day
|
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Schoolgirl with a banner showing the president who led the country to Independence from Spain.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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Chamula is a religious centre for a large area.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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The village is in a rural setting.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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The village is set in rolling hills.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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The village is a centre of the Tzotzil people, descendants of the Maya.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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The Sunday market.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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The main church of Chamula.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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The church uses the Tzotzil language with many pre-Hispanic rites.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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Traditional houses.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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Farms.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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Tzotzil woman.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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Tzotzil girl.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
City / Town : Chamula
|
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Landscape near Chamula.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Sumidero Canyon
|
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Chiapa de Corzo is a town on the Grijalva River.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Sumidero Canyon
|
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The Grijalva River.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Sumidero Canyon
|
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Boats on the river.
|
1991 |
| Mexico |
State / Province : Chiapas
Region : Sumidero Canyon
|
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Comorants.
|
1991 |
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