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Mexican fisherman Leonel Mendoza living in the southern part countries, had to catch daily for three decades fish to feed his large family however now an entrepreneurial man found a much more interesting and profitable a business.
The drought that affected the reservoir helped him in this. Nesaualcootl in Chiapas. Because of her, the water level in the lake dropped as much as twenty-five meters, exposing the ruins of the church sixteenth century.
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Now Leonel does not fish, but rides tourists on his boat to newly emerging attractions. According to the Mexican, travelers generously pay to look close at flooded colonial church, whose age is about four hundred and fifty years. Mendoza says that he must with its current earnings, the Grichalva River, which as a result Drought ceased to feed the reservoir with the same amount of water.
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It is worth noting that this is the second time in the last century, when the ruins of a medieval religious building appeared above water. This happened for the first time in 2002, when they built on the river the dam. The water level in the lake has decreased so much that everyone could get to the church literally on foot. According to Leonel’s words, even then the presence of a flooded church allowed him not bad moonlight – he sold vacationers fried fish, which scattered like hot cakes. Now to the ruins that appeared from the water you can’t get on your own, so the boat and the services of a fisherman became indispensable for tourists.
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Local historians report that this building was called The Church of St. Sanyago. Her mid sixteenth century built on a small lake island a group of monks under the leadership of the Spanish clergyman Bartolome de la Casas. Over time, the water level in the lake began to rise, and when the building was flooded, the monks were forced to leave it. Then the medieval church went completely under water.
The length of the structure is sixty one meters, the width is fourteen, and the height of the bell tower reaches sixteen meters.
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