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  • The Moon Pyramid, dedicated to Chalchihuitlicue, goddess of lakes and streams. The Street of the Dead leads up the pyramid. Teotihuacan, Mexico.
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  • Mayan ruins called The Palace, at Palenque, Mexico.
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  • The Mayan ruins at Xpujil, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • The Mayan ruins of the Governor's Palace at Uxmal, meaning "thrice-built." Yucatan, Mexico..
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  • A Chac Mool statue on the Temple of the Warrior at Chichen Itza or "at the mouth of the well of the Itza". Mayan ruins in Yucatan, Mexico. These were believed to be receptacles for incense and human hearts during sacrifices.
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  • A Chac Mool statue on the Temple of the Warrior at Chichen Itza or "at the mouth of the well of the Itza". Mayan ruins in Yucatan, Mexico. These were believed to be receptacles for incense and human hearts during sacrifices.
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  • El Adivino, the Pyramid of the Magician at Uxmal, meaning "thrice-built." Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Ruins of the Mayan city of Uxmal, meaning "thrice-built." Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Reconstructing the Mayan ruins at Becan, Yucatan, Mexico. Peculiar for its large artificial moat.
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  • Mayan ruins at the Pyramid of the Masks at Kohunlich,  Mexico, Yucatan. Built prior to 500 AD, it is unknown whether they represent rulers or gods.
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  • Mayan ruins at the Pyramid of the Masks at Kohunlich,  Mexico, Yucatan. Built prior to 500 AD, it is unknown whether they represent rulers or gods.
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  • Mayan ruins at Corozal, Belize. A one-armed guide explains the history of the the site to Charles Mann and Sasha Blair and Evan and Jack Menzel. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Mayan ruins of El Castillo at Chichen Itza or "At the mouth of the well of the Itza", Yucatan, Mexico. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Roman Pinachen, archeologist at the Mayan ruins of Chicana, Yucatan, Mexico. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Aerial of the neo-classical Metropolitan Cathedral and Degollado Theater in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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  • The National Cathedral in the Zocalo, the main central Square, Mexico City, Mexico. Construction was ordered by Cortez after destroying the Aztec temples which once occupied the site. It is now tilted as it sinks slowly into the lake bed Mexico City is built on.
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  • The neo-classical Metropolitan Cathedral in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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  • The Cathedral in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Saint Prisca, the Cathedral in Taxco, a colonial silver mining town in central Mexico.
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  • Church in Tonala, Mexico.
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  • School children pass in front of the cathedral in Mitla, Mexico.
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  • View of Taxco, a colonial silver mining hill town in Mexico, with a patio in the foreground.
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  • Stone wall and gate with rooster in front of a blue house in Bolonchen de Rejon, outside Campeche, Mexico.
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  • Colonial neighborhood with red pickup truck in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Colonial neighborhood barred window with flowers and a red wall in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Family looking out the front door and window of their pink house, Lerma Village, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Bridal shop window, downtown Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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  • Pig head, feet, pork chops and lard in a meat market stall of the municipal market, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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  • Luchador masks, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico outside the municipal auditorium where wrestling takes place. Wrestling masks.
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  • Baby Jesus dolls, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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  • A husband and wife push their broken down car on Mother's Day in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
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  • Christ under plastic and other Jesus paraphernalia, Cuernavaca, Morelos,  Mexico.
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  • Baby dolls, Cuernavaca, Morelos,  Mexico.
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  • Religious paraphernalia, Morelos,  Cuernavaca, Mexico.
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  • Couple looking out the front door of their pink house, Lerma Village, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Painted and glazed Tonala pottery, Mexico.
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  • Bronze statue of Miguel Hidalgo. Guadalajara, Mexico.
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  • Portrait of Miguel Hidalgo by Jose Clemente Orozco in the Palacio del Gobernio stairway. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
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  • A chicle camp in Xpujil, Campeche Mexico. Chicle is a tree, and the main ingredient in traditional chewing gum. The sap is collected by chicleros working in the jungle. Here blocks of chicle are stacked by a dirt airstrip ready to be shipped out.
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  • A family in front of their thatched roof home in a Mayan village, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Spectators at the patron saint festival at Coyotepec Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Sitting poolside with palm trees at the Chan Kah Cabanas Hotel. Palenque, Mexico. Near Mayan ruins of Palenque.
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  • Dock, diving board and headless statue at a hotel in Bacalar Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Site Alpha, a Monarch butterfly roosting site on a mountain near Angangeo, Mexico.
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  • A human skull, bones, and clothing dumped by a grave in  Champoton, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Armed guard covered with butterflies at Monarch butterfly reserve at site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Armed guard at Monarch butterfly reserve at site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Monarch butterfly. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Tall trees covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • A path through the woods covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Tall trees covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Tall trees covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Tall trees covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Tall trees covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Tall trees covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Fill flashed view at dusk of tall trees covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Monarch butterflies clustered on the side of a tree at Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Tall trees covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Monarch butterflies clustered on the branches of a tree at Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Teenage visitors at the Monarch butterfly reserve scooping up and tossing butterflies up in the air. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Monarch butterflies in a woodland stream on the butterfly reserve near site alpha, Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Farmland and houses encroaching on the Monarch butterfly reserve at Site Alpha, Mexico.
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  • Artemio Martinez family getting ready for breakfast in their simple house near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • A teenage girl visitor with Monarch butterflies on her head and shoulder. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • A path through the woods covered with butterflies at the Monarch butterfly reserve. Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Self portrait of photographer Peter Menzel overlooking the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Two women prepare a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • A family eats a meal on a wood fire in their ranch kitchen near the Monarch butterfly reserve. Site Alpha, near Rosario, Mexico.
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  • Charles C. Mann sticking his head out of a pickup truck on the dirt road to the Mayan ruins at Rio Bec, Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Aerial of the ancient Mayan city of Calakmul Yucatan, Mexico.  The two large pyramids are covered with trees and vegetation. 1984.
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
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  • A young girl eating a snack sitting on the doorstep of her thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico as a pig comes by to sniff for food scraps.
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  • Boys playing baseball in front of their thatched roof house in a Mayan village in the Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Juan Briceno hacks away at vegetation as he climbs one of the two large pyramids covered with trees in the Ancient Mayan city of Calakmul. Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Freshly netted fish in a red plastic bucket in a blue boat on the beach at Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
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  • Throwing out the anchor on a small fishing boat on the beach at Campeche, Mexico.
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  • Fresh fish offloaded onto the sand beach at Campeche, Mexico.
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  • A young boy carries a shark from a fishing boat to the beach in Campeche, Mexico.
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  • A fish vendor with his fish in the municipal market, Campeche, Mexico.
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  • Telephoto shot of the beach in Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
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  • Tourists on the beach at Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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  • The beach at the Camino Real Hotel with tourists sunbathing by thatched cabanas in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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  • The beach and hotels at Cancun, Mexico.
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  • Fishing from the dock with a large setting sun behind, Ixtapa, Mexico.
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  • Jack Menzel on the dock at Laguna de Bacalar. Yucatan, Mexico.
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  • Early morning yoga on the beach at Zihuatanejo, Mexico.
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  • Sunrise behind a fishing boat with fishermen silhoutted, Veracruz, Mexico.
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  • Woman selling shrimp at the Mercado de Abastos Oaxaca, Mexico.
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  • Gelatin sweets for sale at the municipal market in Taxco, a colonial silver mining town in Mexico.
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  • Molino de Flores. National park, Mexico. At Mirador Restaraunt in El Molino de Flores National Park near Mexico city, Virginia Meras, the wife of the owner grills hand made blue corn tortillas full of cheese and squash blossom flowers for weekend clientele. Near Mexico City.
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  • Molino de Flores National Park, Mexico. Laura Meruz and Raul Ortiz grow their own corn and make cheese quesadillas with blue corn tortillas. Near Mexico City.
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  • At agricultural research station near Oaxaca, Mexico (INIFAP: National Institute of Forestry, Agriculture, and Animal Husbandry), the annual "milpa" survey includes cataloging and photographing hundreds of samples of corn, beans, and squash seeds (grown together and known as a "milpa") in this part of Mexico.
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  • The Itanoni Tortilleria ("Gourmet Tortillas") in Oaxaca, Mexico sells handmade tortillas from native corn that it contracts local growers to produce. In the back room, workers wash dried corn after cooking it. It is then ground into a moist flour that is pressed into tortillas and cooked on clay oven tops, called "comals".
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  • CIMMYT: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center outside Mexico City, Mexico has a huge concrete refrigerated gene bank with thousands of corn seed samples. Here, Jaime Diaz collects jars of seed. This is the largest such Germplasm bank in the world..Near Mexico City. .
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  • CIMMYT: The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center outside Mexico City, Mexico. Dr. Marilyn Warburton extracts DNA out of a young corn seedling whose green leaf is ground into juice.
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  • Native corn seed examples (known as "landraces") from Oaxaca State, Mexico. Oaxaca is thought to be the corn cradle of the Americas: the origin of corn species that were domesticated and that spread all over the world.
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  • A worker wearing heavy gloves picking the fruit of the Nopal cactus "Tunas". Near Puebla, Mexico.
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  • Hector Diaz Castellano, a Zapotec Indian farmer in El Trapiche (Oaxaca State), Mexico, checks pollination of corn plants he is growing for seed corn for the Itanoni Tortilleria.
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  • The interior courtyard of a Zona Rosa Restaurant in Mexico City, Mexico.
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