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Notable exceptions are Tulúm, Ek Balam
and Becán. Mayapán's main buildings are small-scale copies of
those in Chichén Itzá. The Castle and the Snail are obvious
examples of this imitation and reduction. .
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The Yucatan, as a peninsula, emerged as the ocean receded over 65 million years ago.
The limestone shelf that makes up the peninsula is very porous and rain waters filter down into the substructure creating under ground rivers
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