Yucatán Channel many of these died. Some recolonisation has since taken place. The Campeche Bank is a biodiverse area and it and other parts of the Yucatán Channel are heavily fished by artisan fishermen who converge on the area from along the coast of Mexico. The area is threatened by over exploitation. Yucatán Channel The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán (Spanish: "Canal de Yucatán") is a strait between Mexico and Cuba. It connects the Yucatán Basin of the Caribbean Sea with the Gulf of Mexico. It is just over wide and nearly deep at its deepest point near the coast of
Xtabentún: A Novel of Yucatan the son of the man Rosa grew up knowing as her grandfather. This discovery sets Rosa on a quest to understand the early life of her grandmother, Amanda Diaz. Amanda grows up in Mérida, Yucatan during the years of the Mexican Revolution, as the country struggles to throw off centuries of repression of indigenous people by their masters, who are of European descent. Amanda is part of the “divine caste”, but her troubled mother ignores her from the time of her birth and Amanda grows up under the care of her Mayan Indian nurse JOVITA and Jovita’s daughter CACHO, who