Yucatán Peninsula

The Yucatán Peninsula as illustrated on the Mao Kun Map.

"I need to be left on the sandy white beaches of the Yucatán. I need to return home."

―Tumen

The Yucatán Peninsula was a large peninsula in southeast Mexico. It extended toward the northeast, separating the Gulf of Mexico to the north and west of the peninsula from the Caribbean Sea to the east. The Yucatán Channel, between the northeastern corner of the peninsula and Cuba, connects the two bodies of water. The peninsula was located east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a northwestern geographic partition separating the region of Central America from the rest of North America as well as the narrowest point in Mexico separating the Atlantic Ocean, including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, from the Pacific Ocean.

History

Hernán Cortés, a corrosive conquistador, scourged the Yucatán before moving inland to defeat the Aztecs, slaughtering the entire empire through the use of a magical sword, said to have the power to rule entire kingdoms.

Tumen's village was located on the Yucatán peninsula. With their recent quest complete, Jack Sparrow and the rest of the crew of the Barnacle spent their next adventure in Tumen's village on the Yucatán peninsula, where they were blamed for stealing the Sun-and-stars amulet from the village. After Jack and his crew set out to track it down from the real thieves, Tumen would return to his village.

Behind the scenes

Yucatán Peninsula was first mentioned, simply as the "Yucatan" spelled without the apostrophe, in the 2006 book Jack Sparrow: The Siren Song. It would be first identified as "Yucatán peninsula" at the end of The Sword of Cortés through a synopsis of the next volume, The Age of Bronze, where the Yucatán peninsula would make its first appearance.

Appearances

• Jack Sparrow: The Siren Song (First mentioned) (First identified as Yucatan)
• Jack Sparrow: The Sword of Cortés (Mentioned only) (First identified as Yucatán peninsula)
• Jack Sparrow: The Age of Bronze (First appearance)
• Jack Sparrow: Silver (Mentioned only)
• Jack Sparrow: Poseidon's Peak (Mentioned only)
• The Price of Freedom (Mentioned only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Map only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Map only)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Map only)

External links

• Yucatán Peninsula on Wikipedia

Notes and references

Locations in Pirates of the Caribbean
Africa Barbary Coast – Calabar – Egypt – Kerma – Slave Coast – Tripoli The Americas Boston – Canada – Florida – Louisiana – Mexico – New Orleans – North Carolina Panama – Peru – Savannah – Virginia – Yucatán Peninsula Asia Bombay – China – Hong Kong – India – Nippon – Shanghai – Singapore – Suvarnadurg The Bahamas Andros – Nassau – New Avalon – New Providence The Caribbean Antigua – Black rock island – Cuba – Devil's Triangle – Dominica – Guadeloupe – Hangman's Bay – Hispaniola Ile d'Etable de Porc – Isla De La Avaricia – Isla Cruces – Isla de Muerta – Isla de Pelegostos Martinique – Padres Del Fuego – Port Royal – Poseidon's Tomb Puerto Rico – Saint Martin – San Silvestre –Shipwreck Island – St. Lucia – Tortuga – Unnamed Island Europe Barcelona – Bristol – Cádiz – Cartagena – France – Gibraltar – Great Britain – Holland London – Marseille – Paris – Portugal – Scotland – Seville – Spain – Other locations Davy Jones' Locker – Farthest Gate – Ice Passage – Isla Sirena
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