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Isthmus of Tehuantepec   Listen
Isthmus of Tehuantepec

noun
1.
The narrowest part of southern Mexico is an isthmus between the Bay of Campeche on the north coast and the Gulf of Tehuantepec on the south coast.





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"Isthmus of Tehuantepec" Quotes from Famous Books



... the work was infinitesimal compared with the advance of the Grass. It swept over the ancient Aztec empire down to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The ruins of Mayan civilization, excavated once, were buried anew. The demolition engineers measured their daily progress in feet, the Grass in miles. When the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific met in Lake Nicaragua, the Grass was ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore


Words linked to "Isthmus of Tehuantepec" :   isthmus


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