Buctzotz 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 ...

: "dress made of hair") is one of the 106

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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 (543.45 km²) of land and is located roughly northeast of the city of Mérida. It contains several churches and a hospital, Centre de Salud Buctzotz, in the eastern part of the main town.

History

There is no accurate data on when the town was founded, but during the

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, it became part of the encomienda system and

Francisco de Montejo the Younger Francisco de Montejo y León (; 1508 – 8 February 1565), known as "the Younger" (), was a Spanish conquistador, who in 1542 founded the city of Mérida, capital of State of Yucatán, Mexico. The son of Francisco de Montejo, ca. June 1527 he ...

was the first encomendero. Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821, and in 1825 the area was assigned to the coastal region partition of Izamal Municipality. In 1867 it was transferred to the Temax Municipality and in 1988 was confirmed as head of its own municipality. In 1913, Buctzotz was the site of a battle of the revolutionary forces under the command of the General Juan Campos.

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 services, ecology, parks, public sanitation, nomenclature and cemeteries.

Communities

The head of the municipality is

Buctzotz Buctzotz is a town and the municipal seat of the Buctzotz Municipality, Yucatán in Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north ...

, Yucatán. There are 18 populated areas of the municipality which include Chuntzalam, Dzonot Sábila, Gran Lucha, Grano de Oro, Muldzonot, San Francisco, Santo Domingo, Unidad Juárez, and X-bec. The significant populations are shown below:

Local festivals

Every year from 8 to 11 January the town celebrates a festival in honor of the town patroness, the Immaculate Conception and hosts a pilgrimage in her honor between 22 and 30 August. There is also a fiesta held for Santa Clara from 13 to 25 August held annually.

Tourist attractions

* Church of San Isidro Labrador, built in the sixteenth century * Chapel of the Immaculate Conception * Cenote Aguas Leguas * Cenote Álvarez I * Cenote Álvarez II * Cenote Azuelín * Cenote Azúl

References

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