The relics of a 16th-century church built by Spanish colonisers has emerged from a reservoir in the south of Mexico. It is the second time the church, usually submerged on the reservoir bed, has been revealed in the state of Chiapas as a result of drought. A water-level drop of at least 24 metres in the Grijalba river which feeds the reservoir exposed the 400-year-old roofless religious building, with its 10-metre high walls, 61-metre length and 14-metre wide hall. The river was last this low in 2002, when visitors were able to walk about inside the church....
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