Akil Municipality (
Yucatec Maya
Yucatec Maya (; referred to by its speakers simply as Maya or as , is one of the 32 Mayan languages of the Mayan language family. Yucatec Maya is spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize. There is also a significant diasporic commu ...
: "place of the vines") is one of the 106
municipalities
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
Mexican state of
Yucatán
Yucatán (, also , , ; yua, Yúukatan ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán,; yua, link=no, Xóot' Noj Lu'umil Yúukatan. is one of the 31 states which comprise the federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 106 separate mun ...
containing (48.54 km
2) of land and is located roughly southeast of the Capital State.
History
There is no accurate data on when the town was founded, but it was a settlement before the
conquest
Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms.
Military history provides many examples of conquest: the Roman conquest of Britain, the Mauryan conquest of Afghanistan and of vast areas of the Indian subcontinent, t ...
. Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821, and in 1825 the area was assigned to the High Sierra partition with headquarters in
Tekax Municipality
Tekax Municipality (Yucatec Maya: "rejected tea or forest of Kax trees") is one of the 106 municipalities in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (3,819.61 km2) of land and is located roughly southeast of the city of Mérida.
History
...
. In 1848, one of the bloodiest battles of the
Caste War of Yucatán occurred in Akil between Maya rebels and troops under the command of Colonel José Dolores Cetina.
In 1919, it became its own municipality.
Governance
The municipal president is elected for a three-year term. The town council has seven councilpersons, who serve as Secretary and councilors of public works, public lighting, health, public security, public monuments, and nomenclature.
Communities
The head of the municipality is
Akil, Yucatán. The municipality has 9 populated places
besides the seat including Plan Chác, el Rancho Kitinché, San Diego and San Martino. The significant populations are shown below:
Local festivals
Every year in the second week of April there is a festival in honor of Santa Inés.
Tourist attractions
* Church of Santa Inés, built during the sixteenth century
* Archaeological site at Akil
* Archaeological site at Sac nicte Akil
References
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Municipalities of Yucatán