A three-faced monolith and a rock hewn in the shape of a bone with a misspelled text carved on it mark the site in this town, located 1,355 kilometers (842 miles) east of Mexico City, where the impact of a giant meteorite 65 million years ago initiated the massive extinction of Cretaceous-era species.
The monument, with crude depictions of dinosaurs, can be found in the central square, facing the church and police station in Chicxulub Puerto, a town of 10,000 on the Yucatan Peninsula's coast some 35 kilometers (19 miles) north of Merida, and away from the tourism hotspots of Cancun and Cozumel.
Source: EFE
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