Timucuy | |
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Municipality | |
 Church at Timucuy, Yucatán | |
 Region 2 Noroeste #090 | |
  Timucuy Location of the Municipality in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 21°09′08″N89°28′56″W / 21.15222°N 89.48222°W Coordinates: 21°09′08″N89°28′56″W / 21.15222°N 89.48222°W | |
| Country |  |
| State |  |
| Government | |
| • Type |  |
| • Municipal President | Carlos Eutimio Chan May [2] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 63.15 km2 (24.38 sq mi) |
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| Elevation | 14 m (46 ft) |
| Population (2010 [3] ) | |
| • Total | 6,833 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Standard Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time) |
| INEGI Code | 009 |
| Major Airport | Merida (Manuel Crescencio Rejón) International Airport |
| IATA Code | MID |
| ICAO Code | MMMD |
Timucuy Municipality (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “place of the dove (divine hen)”) is one of the 106 municipalities in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (63.15 km2) of land and located roughly 25 km southeast of the city of Mérida. [2]
Yucatec Maya, called mayaʼ tʼàan by its speakers, is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize. To native speakers, the proper name is Maya and it is known only as Maya. The qualifier "Yucatec" is a tag linguists use to distinguish it from other Mayan languages. Thus the use of the term Yucatec Maya to refer to the language is scientific jargon or nomenclature.
Yucatán is a state in Southeast Mexico that is divided into 106 municipalities, organized into 7 administrative regions. Most of the names of the municipalities come from the Yucatec Maya language, which is still spoken by more of 30% of the population, according to INEGI (2000).
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi), the nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent state in the world. With an estimated population of over 120 million people, the country is the eleventh most populous state and the most populous Spanish-speaking state in the world, while being the second most populous nation in Latin America after Brazil. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, a special federal entity that is also the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the state include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, Tijuana and León.
