Tekom Municipality is a
municipality in the
Mexican state
The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...
of
Yucatán. Tekom is also the name of the municipality's largest settlement and seat of the municipal government (''
cabecera municipal
Municipalities (''municipios'' in Spanish) are the second-level administrative divisions of Mexico, where the first-level administrative division is the ''state'' (Spanish: estado). They should not be confused with cities or towns that may share ...
''). In the XII national census (''
Censo General de Población y Vivienda'') conducted by
INEGI in 2000, Tekom municipality recorded a population of 2,660 inhabitants. In the intermediate census count undertaken by INEGI in 2005 (the ''
II Conteo de Población y Vivienda''), the total municipal population was recorded as 2,933 inhabitants, 2,413 of whom spoke one of the recognised
indigenous languages of Mexico
Many languages are spoken in Mexico, though Spanish is the ''de facto'' national language spoken by the vast majority of the population, making Mexico the world's most populous Hispanophone country. The indigenous languages are from eleven lan ...
(
Yucatec Maya).
[INEGI (2006, pp.60–61)]
The municipality is located in the southeastern portion of the state in the north-central
Yucatán Peninsula, and covers a total area of some . The terrain is a virtually flat plain, with a median elevation of
above mean sea level.
[INAFED (2005)] As with most of the Yucatán Peninsula there are no surface rivers or creeks, but there are subterranean water-filled sinkholes (''
cenotes'') some of which are naturally exposed at the surface. Average annual rainfall, which is regular in the summer months, amounts to approximately . The climate is classed as subhumid.
Tekom was created as a ''
municipio libre
Municipalities ('' municipios'' in Spanish) are the second-level administrative divisions of Mexico, where the first-level administrative division is the '' state'' (Spanish: estado). They should not be confused with cities or towns that may sha ...
'' of Yucatán state on 1 January 1920. In 1957 the southern half of Tekom's territory was partitioned off to form a new municipality,
Chikindzonot.
References
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External links
H. Ayuntamiento de Tekom website of Tekom's municipal government
{{Yucatán
Municipalities of Yucatán