Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] mx2cmqryu dispute flares again but crazier than ever
Date: Mar 06, 2006 @ 21:12
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> Thanks for this juicy morsel of news on one of thehttp://www2.eluniversal.com.mx/pls/impreso/web_columnas_sup.detalle?var=29246
> most complex and baffling
> boundary situations in North America! I have
> reviewed your and my old posts on
> this issue, and I've dug out some new material.
>
> First, I want to point you to the maps of Campeche
> and Quintana Roo from the
> Mexican federal government's new 2006 ATLAS POR
> ENTIDAD FEDERATIVA, which can be
> downloaded (along with all other states and the
> Distrito Federal) as huge PDF's
> at http://dgp.sct.gob.mx/index.php?id=440 . This is
> the best and most
> up-to-date series of Mexican maps of which I know
> anywhere on the web.
>
> The maps of Campeche (
> http://dgp.sct.gob.mx/fileadmin/Atlas/campeche.pdf )
> and
> Quintana Roo (
> http://dgp.sct.gob.mx/fileadmin/Atlas/qroo.pdf )
> from this series
> are in agreement, in that they show the disputed
> area between them crosshatched
> in red. The explanation on the Campeche map says,
> "Los límites estatales de
> Quintana Roo y Campeche están por definirlos la
> Suprema Corte de Justícia [sic]
> de la Nación." The Quintana Roo map explains, "Los
> límites estatales de
> Quintana Roo y Campeche están por definirlos la
> Suprema Corte de Justicia Que se
> encuentran en Litigio." Both maps show the
> competing vertex locations as "Put"
> and "Nuevo Put." The Yucatán map shows that state's
> southern vertex at Put and
> the zone crosshatched elsewhere as in Campeche
> (giving us what would be a
> martini glass with bent stem if the map went far
> enough south).
>
> Some among us will be interested to know that the
> Campeche map shows a monument
> at or near BZGTMX labeled "MONUMENTO 107 (VERTICE
> AGUAS TURBIAS)," where the
> traditional survey of GTMX terminates. The most
> astounding thing is that the
> map of Quintana Roo labels the eastern line of the
> crosshatched zone (and thus
> the boundary as claimed by Campeche) as "MERIDANO DE
> GARBUTT" as if its location
> were derivative from Garbutt's Falls on the Belize
> River on BZGT rather than the
> disputed location of the ruins of Rancho Put. I kid
> you not! I don't know what
> to read into that.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheia kallos" <aletheiak@...>
> To: <boundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 8:55 AM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] mx2cmqryu dispute flares
> again but crazier than ever
>
>
> > fresh news report
> >
>
> >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/11364
> > dispute was previously discussed tho the tripoint
> was
> > misnamed here
> >
>
> > which included this linkhttp://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.larevista.com.mx%2Fed638%2Fopi10.htm&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
> > http://www.larevista.com.mx/ed638/opi10.htm
> > wherein the intimately related bzgtmx tripoint was
> > also misidentified
> > & of which the following is a comical
> mistranslation
> >
>
> >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/11359
> > earlier yet probably better info
> >
>
> >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/11357
>
> >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/11354
>
> >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/11351
>