Due to the severe drought  in Southern Mexico this year, a church believed to be more than 400-years-old has re-emerged in the Grijalva River.

The water level in the Grijalva River has dropped 25 metres exposing the 16th-century  church. The church is loctaed in the Quechula locality, and is believed to have been abandoned after an outbreak of plague in the region.

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The church which had emerged once before, in 2002, is 61 meters long and 14 meters wide, with walls rising 10 meters . The bell tower reaches 16 meters (48 feet) above the ground and was originally built by a group of monks headed by Friar Bartolome de la Casas.

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