Tixméhuac Municipality

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Tixméhuac
Municipality
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Region 7 Sur #094
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Tixméhuac
Location of the Municipality in Mexico
Coordinates: 20°14′07″N89°06′30″W / 20.23528°N 89.10833°W / 20.23528; -89.10833 Coordinates: 20°14′07″N89°06′30″W / 20.23528°N 89.10833°W / 20.23528; -89.10833
Country Flag of Mexico.svg Mexico
State Flag of Yucatan.svg Yucatán
Mexico Ind.1821
Yucatán Est.1824
Government
 • Type PRD logo without border (Mexico).svg 2012–2015 [1]
 • Municipal PresidentEdilberto Rodriguez López [2]
Area
 • Total251.65 km2 (97.16 sq mi)
  [2]
Elevation
33 m (108 ft)
Population
(2010 [3] )
 • Total4,746
 • Density19/km2 (49/sq mi)
 •  Demonym
Umanense
Time zone UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)
INEGI Code094
Major Airport Merida (Manuel Crescencio Rejón) International Airport
IATA Code MID
ICAO Code MMMD
Municipalities of Yucatán

Tixméhuac Municipality (Yucatec Maya: "Place of Xmeuac tribe") is one of the 106 municipalities in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (251.65 km2) of land and is located roughly 110 kilometres (68 mi) 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.

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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).

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History

There is no accurate data on when the town was founded, but it was a settlement before the conquest and under the chieftainship of Tutul Xiu. After colonization, the area became part of the encomienda system with various encomenderos, including: Juan Xiu, in 1557; Hernando Xiu, in 1565; and Pablo Cen, in 1579. [2]

The Spanish conquest of Yucatán was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities in the Yucatán Peninsula, a vast limestone plain covering south-eastern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and all of Belize. The Spanish conquest of the Yucatán Peninsula was hindered by its politically fragmented state. The Spanish engaged in a strategy of concentrating native populations in newly founded colonial towns. Native resistance to the new nucleated settlements took the form of the flight into inaccessible regions such as the forest or joining neighbouring Maya groups that had not yet submitted to the Spanish. Among the Maya, ambush was a favoured tactic. Spanish weaponry included broadswords, rapiers, lances, pikes, halberds, crossbows, matchlocks and light artillery. Maya warriors fought with flint-tipped spears, bows and arrows and stones, and wore padded cotton armour to protect themselves. The Spanish introduced a number of Old World diseases previously unknown in the Americas, initiating devastating plagues that swept through the native populations.

Encomienda labor system used by the Spanish crown during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines

Encomienda was a Spanish labor system. It rewarded conquerors with the labor of particular groups of subject people. It was first established in Spain following the Christian conquest of Muslim territories. It was applied on a much larger scale during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines. Conquered peoples were considered vassals of the Spanish monarch. The Crown awarded an encomienda as a grant to a particular individual. In the conquest era of the sixteenth century, the grants were considered to be a monopoly on the labor of particular groups of Indians, held in perpetuity by the grant holder, called the encomendero, and his descendants.

Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821, [2] and in 1825 the area was assigned to the Tekax Municipality. [4] In 1900 it becomes its own municipality. [2]

Tekax Municipality Municipality in Yucatán, Mexico

Tekax Municipality is one of the 106 municipalities in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (3,819.61 km2) of land and is located roughly 125 kilometres (78 mi) southeast of the city of Mérida.

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 services and cemeteries. [5]

Communities

The head of the municipality is Tixméhuac, Yucatán. The municipality has 25 populated places [5] besides the seat including Chican, Chuchub, Dzutóh, Ebtún, Kimbilá, Sabacché, Sisbic and Xeo-pil. The significant populations are shown below: [2]

CommunityPopulation
Entire Municipality (2010)4,746 [3]
Chicán567 in 2005 [6]
Dzutoh116 in 2005 [7]
Kimbilá510 in 2005 [8]
Sabacché572 in 2005 [9]
Sisbic172 in 2005 [10]
Tixméhuac2189 in 2005 [11]

Local festivals

Every year on 19 September the town celebrates the feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. [2]

Tourist attractions

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References

  1. ↑ "Conceden licencia al diputado Edilberto Rodríguez López (PRD)" (in Spanish). Mérida, Mexico: Por Esto!. 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Municipios de Yucatán »Tixméhuac" (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Mexico In Figures:Tixméhuac, Yucatán". INEGI (in Spanish and English). Aguascalientes, México: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI). Archived from the original on 6 May 2015. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Estado de Yucatán. División Territorial de 1810 a 1995" (PDF). inegi (in Spanish). Aguascalientes, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática. 1996. p. 115. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-23. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Tixméhuac". inafed (in Spanish). Mérida, Mexico: Enciclopedia de Los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Chicán" (in Spanish). PueblosAmerica. 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Dzutoh" (in Spanish). PueblosAmerica. 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "Kimbilá" (in Spanish). PueblosAmerica. 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Sabacché" (in Spanish). PueblosAmerica. 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "Sisbic" (in Spanish). PueblosAmerica. 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "Tixméhuac" (in Spanish). PueblosAmerica. 2005. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
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