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Water Body Attractions In Bacalar

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Bacalar is the municipal seat and largest city in Bacalar Municipality in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, about 40 kilometres north of Chetumal, at 18° 40' 37 N, 88° 23' 43 W. In the 2010 census the city had a population of 11,084 people. At that time it was still a part of Othón P. Blanco, and was its second-largest city , after Chetumal. The name most likely derives from Mayan languages: b'ak halal, meaning surrounded by reeds, the name of the locality attested at the time of the 16th century arrival of the Spanish. Bacalar is also the name of the lagoon, Bacalar lagoon on the east side of the town. Bacalar was a city of the Maya civilization i...
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  • 1. Lake Bacalar Bacalar
    Lake Bacalar is a long and narrow lake in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is approximately 42 km long measured from north to south, and less than 2 km at its widest. The lake is renowned for its striking blue color and water clarity, partly the result of having a white limestone bottom. Like most bodies of water in the Yucatán peninsula, the lake is fed by underground rivers, whose regular open pools are cenotes. Because of the porous limestone, the Yucatan Pen. has almost no lakes, this is by far the largest, and fed by the 450 km underground river that is part of the worlds's largest subterranean water cave/tunnel system, paralleling the coast. It contains a huge population of the oldest life on the planet, the cauliflower-like stromatolites that only still exist in a few location...
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  • 4. Lake Bacalar Yucatan Peninsula
    Lake Bacalar is a long and narrow lake in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is approximately 42 km long measured from north to south, and less than 2 km at its widest. The lake is renowned for its striking blue color and water clarity, partly the result of having a white limestone bottom. Like most bodies of water in the Yucatán peninsula, the lake is fed by underground rivers, whose regular open pools are cenotes. Because of the porous limestone, the Yucatan Pen. has almost no lakes, this is by far the largest, and fed by the 450 km underground river that is part of the worlds's largest subterranean water cave/tunnel system, paralleling the coast. It contains a huge population of the oldest life on the planet, the cauliflower-like stromatolites that only still exist in a few location...
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