Tinúm 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 ...
: "crippled
numtzutzuy")
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 () of land and is located roughly east of the city of
Mérida.
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 ...
and was located in the chieftainship of Cupules. Within the municipality is
Chichen Itza, a city built in the Post Classic Maya period, which reached its apex between the 11th and 12th centuries.
After colonization by the Spanish, the area became part of the
encomienda system with various encomenderos,
beginning with Juan García de Llanos in 1549 and passing to the crown in 1551. In 1607, it passed to Baltasar Pacheco Dorantes.
Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821. In 1825
the Mexican government assigned this community to the
Valladolid Municipality. In 1918 Tinúm was designated as an independent 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, police commissaries, education, ecology, public monuments and sports.
Communities
The seat of the municipality is Tinúm. The municipality has 37 populated places
besides the seat, including Balantún, Chichén Itzá, Chichil, Dzulotok, Macuchén,
Pisté, San Francisco, San Felipe, San Felipe Nuevo, San José, San Nicolás, Santa María, Tohopkú, and X-Calakoop. The significant populations are shown below:
Local festivals
Every year on 12 June, the town celebrates the feast of
Saint Anthony of Padua
Anthony of Padua ( it, Antonio di Padova) or Anthony of Lisbon ( pt, António/Antônio de Lisboa; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He was bo ...
, its patron saint.
Tourist attractions
* Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, built during the colonial era
* Church of Conception, built during the colonial era
* archeological sites at Bacancú, Canahum,
Chichen Itza, Dzibiac, Halacal, Joya de Erik Thompson, Pisté, San Francisco Semé, San Juan Holtún, Tikincab, La Venta and Xnabá.
*
Sacred Cenote
The Sacred Cenote ( es, cenote sagrado, , "sacred well"; alternatively known as the "Well of Sacrifice") is a water-filled sinkhole in limestone at the pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, in the northern Yucatán Peninsula. It ...
*
Hacienda Chichén
Hacienda Chichén is located within the ancient Maya city of Chichen Itza, in the county of Tinum, Yucatan, Mexico. It was one of the first haciendas established in Yucatán and was in ruins by 1847. Edward Herbert Thompson, U.S. consul in Yucatán ...
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References
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Municipalities of Yucatán