Mayans Ask Mexican Court to Recognize Lakes as Legal Persons — VOA Learning English
Topics: мистецтво й музика
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In the Mexican state of Yucatan, hundreds of underground lakes form a semicircular shape in the northwestern part of Yucatan state. They are called the Ring of Cenotes. The lakes provide water for the area, but they are also part of a dispute between local people and pig farmers.
The cenotes are also important to local people who earn a living by leading foreign visitors into the caverns to swim and explore.
Maribel Ek lives in the community of Homun, near the cenote known as Santa Maria. To native Mayans like Ek, cenotes are holy. She calls the Sant Maria cenote her "neighbor."
That belief is behind a legal action, or lawsuit, that aims to have the Ring of Cenotes legally recognized as a…
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