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Giant Cenote-Like Sinkhole Discovered in China’s Guangxi

XINHUA A Chinese cave exploration team on Friday, May 6, discovered a giant karst sinkhole in Leye County, in the south the country’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, bringing Leye’s number of such sinkholes to 30. https://v.xinhua-news.com/dsp_AV/avc_video/202205/08/124bc7afe2404e459f0612cd3956c983_2048k_L.mp4 China’s sinkholes are similar to the underground waterways cenotes found in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. The massive newly discovered Guangxi sinkhole measures 306 meters in

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Queretaro Indigenous Community Marks Ancient Otomí Festival

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF The residents of Mexico’s Santa Cruz de La Peña de Bernal, an indigenous Otomí-Chichimeca community in the semi-desert municipality of Toliman, Queretaro, will celebrate an ancient pre-Columbian ritual on Wednesday, May 4, in much the same way that it did before the Spanish Conquest. The millennial celebration, which was eventually adapted and assimilated into

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Grupo Brisas Names New Corporate Director of Operations

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico’s high-end hotel chain Grupo Brisas announced Friday, April 29, that, as of Sunday, May 1, Jaime Jaramillo would assume the position of the company’s corporate director of operations. After leading efforts for six years to position Brisas’ exclusive Nizuc Resort & Spa in Cancun, Quintana Roo, as one of the best luxury resorts

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Five Reasons to Follow George Washington to Barbados

  By RICH GRANT     Everyone knows George Washington was first in war and first in peace … but first in picking Caribbean vacations? George only left the continental United States once in his lifetime, and that was to sail to the Caribbean island of Barbados. The then-19-year-old George went with his ailing half-brother Lawrence in the hopes that the warm

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26,000 Turn Out for Chichén Itzá Equinox Observance

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After nearly two years of closure due the the covid-19 pandemic, the Maya archaeological zone of Chichén Itzá in the Mexican state of Yucatán received more than 26,000 national and international tourists during the the three-day holiday weekend, to celebrate the spring equinox from Saturday, March 19, through Monday, March 21. Under strict sanitary

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