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Chicxulub, Yucatán

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Chicxulub (IPA: /ʧikʃu'luːb/; cheek-shoe-LUBE) is a town in the state of Yucatán, Mexico, located at 21°14′N 89°51′W . In 2000 the town had a population of about 3,400 people.

Chicxulub is most famous for being the geographic center of the location where geologists first discovered the Chicxulub Crater, an impact crater left in the Yucatan peninsula and extending into the ocean. It was created by the impact of a huge meteorite some 65 million years ago, and may have caused the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.

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