Chicxulub Pueblo

Chicxulub Pueblo
Chicxulub Pueblo
Municipal Seat
	Chicxulub Pueblo
	Coordinates: 21°8′11″N 89°31′0″W / 21.13639°N 89.51667°W / 21.13639; -89.51667
Country	Mexico
State	Yucatán
Municipality	Chicxulub Pueblo
Elevation	8 m (26 ft)
Population (2010)
• Total	4,080
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central Standard Time)
Postal code	97340
Area code	985
INEGI code	310200001

Town in the Mexican state of Yucatán

Municipal Seat in Yucatán, Mexico

Chicxulub Pueblo (Yucatec Maya: Ch’ik Xulub, Mayan pronunciation: [t͡ʃʼik ʃuluɓ]) is a town, and surrounding municipality of the same name, in the Mexican state of Yucatán.

At the census of 2010, the town had a population of 4,080 people.

Chicxulub is most famous for being near the geographic center of the Chicxulub crater, an impact crater discovered by geologists on the Yucatán Peninsula and extending into the ocean. It was created by the impact some 66 million years ago of the Chicxulub impactor, an asteroid or comet which caused^[2]^[3] the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, which led to the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs, pterosaurs and other animals that dominated the Mesozoic. The coastal village (or puerto) of Chicxulub, in the neighboring municipality of Progreso, lies almost exactly on the geographic center of the crater.

The name Chicxulub is from the Yucatec Maya language. There is a small debate about the meaning of the name of the town. It may come from ch'íik xulub, which could mean "place of the sharp horn," or "place where the devil fell," or it may come from ch'ik xulub, which is "the devil's flea."^[4]^[5]

References

^ "Population and Housing Census 2010". INEGI.org. National Institute of Statistics and Geography. 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
^ "International Consensus—Link Between Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction Is Rock Solid". Lunar and Planetary Institute. 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2014-11-27.
^ Renne, Paul R.; Deino, Alan L.; Hilgen, Frederik J.; Kuiper, Klaudia F.; Mark, Darren F.; Mitchell, William S.; Morgan, Leah E.; Mundil, Roland; Smit, Jan (7 February 2013). "Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary". Science. 339 (6120): 684–687. Bibcode:2013Sci...339..684R. doi:10.1126/science.1230492. PMID 23393261. S2CID 6112274.
^ "Municipios de Yucatán". Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. Archived from the original on 2024-05-30. Retrieved 2025-11-14.
^ Diccionario Maya Popular Maya-Español Español-Maya (7th ed.). Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: Academia de la Lengua Maya de Yucatán. 2024. ISBN 968-5480-37-0.

External links

Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
Google Maps
Google Earth seashore view at Chicxulub

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[Census-1] "Population and Housing Census 2010". INEGI.org. National Institute of Statistics and Geography. 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2018.

[2] "International Consensus—Link Between Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction Is Rock Solid". Lunar and Planetary Institute. 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2014-11-27.

[Renne2013-3] Renne, Paul R.; Deino, Alan L.; Hilgen, Frederik J.; Kuiper, Klaudia F.; Mark, Darren F.; Mitchell, William S.; Morgan, Leah E.; Mundil, Roland; Smit, Jan (7 February 2013). "Time Scales of Critical Events Around the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary". Science. 339 (6120): 684–687. Bibcode:2013Sci...339..684R. doi:10.1126/science.1230492. PMID 23393261. S2CID 6112274.

[4] "Municipios de Yucatán". Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. Archived from the original on 2024-05-30. Retrieved 2025-11-14.

[5] Diccionario Maya Popular Maya-Español Español-Maya (7th ed.). Merida, Yucatan, Mexico: Academia de la Lengua Maya de Yucatán. 2024. ISBN 968-5480-37-0.