Yucatán

CHICHEN ITZÁ This controverted Mayan city was the center of the empire in the peninsula until the year 987 D.C., when the Mayan Itzaes settled in the yucateca peninsula, bringing with them the Toltec influence. From the X through the XII century, Chichen-Itza, Uxmal and Mayapan, the three principal cities of the Mayan empire from the early post classical period, made a pact called the League of Mayapan. During this time, Chichen-Itza excercised dominating power. Towards the year 1194, Mayapan took the power from Chichen-Itza and retained it until 1441, when the rebellions finished with the Mayan empire and small, weak lordships were created causing them to easily succumb to the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. The city of Chichen-Itza or ¨Boca Del Pozo de los Itzaes¨, exhibited Toltec influenc ... Read more >>
Yucatán History


Home of the Mayan culture, Yucatan is located in the southeast part of Mexico, on the tip of the Yucatan Penin ...
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Yucatán Culture


The geography of the history maintained this beautiful peninsula isolated from issues of the New Mexican Repub ...
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Yucatán Travel


The astronomical advances of this culture continued taking the olmec legacy of time reading. The tower ¨El Car...
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Yucatán Map

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Yucatán Economy

The challenge that every administration faces in Yucatan is related to combating extreme poverty that affects ...
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Yucatán Geography

Yucatán has a territorial extensión of 39,612 km2, and 2% of the Mexican surface. The state of Yucatan attache ...
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Yucatán Politics

Yucatan is a state of abundant natural resources within a privileged geographic location, vast coastal areas a ...
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Yucatán Government

Ivonne Aracelly Ortega Pacheco was born on November 26, 1972. She has been an active member of Partido Revolu ...
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Yucatán Demography

Yucatan has a population of 1,818,948 inhabitants registered in the 2005 Census by the INEGI. Yucatan is in 21 ...
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The British Petroleum (BP) and the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
April 20, 2010, was the beginning of what could be one of the biggest ecological disasters in history. There was an explosion on the Read More>>


Xel-Há, Mexico for Tourism
Xel-Ha is located on the east coast of the Yucatán peninsula, in the State of Quintana Roo. It is one of the most important archeological Read More>>


The Mexican Caribbean, Travel by Boat
The Mexican Caribbean includes six main destinations: Cancún, the Mayan Riviera, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Chetumal, and the Grand Costa Maya. World famous for its Read More>>


Mexico's World Cultural Heritage Sites II (1993-2002)
It is a combination of natural formations and those contributed by humans, worthy of preservation. Read More>>


Contoy Island and it's National Park
Contoy Island is another of the natural beauties that we can find in the Caribbean Sea. Located in the state of Quintana Roo, it is Read More>>


Magical Towns in Mexico
The Magical Towns of Mexico are cities that have witnessed great events of the country’s history or have a very special set of Read More>>


Mérida: The “White” City
Mérida, the capital of Yucatán is admired by its wide variety of tourism offerings. Its origins date from January 1542 by Spanish immigrants Read More>>


Natural World Heritage Sites in Mexico
This biosphere reserve is a complex hydrological system named by the Mayan who once inhabited this region, Sian Ka'an means 'Origin of the Read More>>


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