Dzitás Municipality

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Dzitás
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Region 6 Oriente #030
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Dzitás
Location of the Municipality in Mexico
Coordinates: 20°50′22″N88°31′34″W / 20.83944°N 88.52611°W / 20.83944; -88.52611
Country Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
State Flag of Yucatan.svg Yucatán
Mexico Ind.1821
Yucatán Est.1824
Government
  Type PRI Party (Mexico).svg 2012–2015 [1]
  Municipal PresidentJosé Crescencio Canul Polanco [2]
Area
  Total456.03 km2 (176.07 sq mi)
  [2]
Elevation
[2]
32 m (105 ft)
Population
 (2010 [3] )
  Total3,540
  Density7.8/km2 (20/sq mi)
   Demonym
Umanense
Time zone UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)
INEGI Code101
Major Airport Merida (Manuel Crescencio Rejón) International Airport
IATA Code MID
ICAO Code MMMD
Municipalities of Yucatán

Dzitás Municipality (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “plant name: mamay or plantain") is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (456.03 km2) of land and is located roughly 125 km east of the city of Mérida. [2]

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History

There is no accurate data on when the town was founded, though it existed before the conquest as part of the province of Cupules. At colonization, Dzitás became part of the encomienda system. [2] What is now known as Dzitas was divided into two different encomiendos. Part was designated to Juan Rodrígez in 1549 and the other to Diego de Alcocer. In 1579 the first part was held by Juan Rodrígez and Diego de Alcocer and the second by Diego de Alcocer and Francisca Briceño. The parts were divided between Luis Carrillo de Albornoz and Francisco Rodríguez Montalvo in 1652 and in 1688 between Felipe Carrillo and Isabel Peraza de Ayala. [4]

Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821, and in 1825 the area was assigned to the partition of Valladolid Municipality. In 1918 it was designated as its own municipality, but lost a portion of its area in 1931 with the creation of Quintana Roo Municipality. [2]

In 1931 the anthropologists Robert and Margaret Park Redfield stayed in the county seat of Dzitas for extended periods and published The Folk Culture of Yucatan, [5] and Disease and its treatment in Dzitas, Yucatan [6]

Governance

The municipal president is elected for a three-year term. The town council has four councilpersons, who serve as Secretary and councilors of public works, public monuments and markets. [7]

Communities

The head of the municipality is Dzitás, Yucatán. There are 10 populated areas of the municipality [7] with the most important being Dzitás, Dzitcacao, Santa Rosa, Xocempich and Yaxché. The significant populations are shown below: [2]

CommunityPopulation
Entire Municipality (2010)3,540 [3]
Dzitás2826 in 2005 [8]
Xocempich563 in 2005 [9]

Local festivals

Every year from 16 to 22 January is the Festival of Santa Inés, patron saint of the town. [2]

Tourist attractions

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References

  1. "Presidentes Municipales" (in Spanish). Mérida, Mexico: PRI yucatan. 23 January 2014. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Municipios de Yucatán »Dzitás" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Mexico In Figures:Dzitás, Yucatán". INEGI (in Spanish and English). Aguascalientes, México: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI). Archived from the original on 6 May 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  4. García Bernal, Manuela Cristina (1978). Población y encomienda en Yucatán bajo los Austrias (in Spanish). Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos. pp. 508–509. ISBN   978-8-400-04399-5 . Retrieved 1 August 2015.
  5. Redfield, Robert (1941). The Folk Culture of Yucatan. U of Chicago Press.
  6. Redfield, Margaret Park and Robert Redfield (1940). Disease and its treatment in Dzitas, Yucatan. Carnegie Institution of Washington.
  7. 1 2 "Dzitás". inafed (in Spanish). Mérida, Mexico: Enciclopedia de Los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
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