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Maní Municipality (In the
Yucatec Maya Yucatec Maya ( ; referred to by its speakers as or ) is a Mayan languages, Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, including part of northern Belize. There is also a significant diasporic community of Yucatec Maya speakers in San Fra ...
Language: 'Place where everything happened', properly 'to travel or walk to some place’, that is, ''pasar caminando a alguna parte''; ''desfilar''; ''transitar''Alfredo Barrera Vásquez, director; Juan Ramón Bastarrachea Manzano and William Brito Sansores, editors: Diccionario maya Cordemex: Maya-Español, Español-Maya,Vol. 2, Mérida, Yucatán, 1980, Ediciones Cordemex) is a
municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...
in the Mexican
state State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...
of
Yucatán Yucatán, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 106 separate municipalities, and its capital city is Mérida. ...
containing (85.59 km2) of land and is located roughly 90 km south of the city of Mérida.


History

In the pre-Hispanic period the area was part of the chieftainship of Tutul Xiu and it was a ceremonial center, where the annual festival to Kukulcan was held. At the
conquest Conquest involves the annexation or control of another entity's territory through war or Coercion (international relations), coercion. Historically, conquests occurred frequently in the international system, and there were limited normative or ...
, Maní became part of the
encomienda The ''encomienda'' () was a Spanish Labour (human activity), labour system that rewarded Conquistador, conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples. In theory, the conquerors provided the labourers with benefits, including mil ...
system with its lands assigned to the Spanish Crown, which was still the sole trustee in 1565. In 1562, Franciscan priest
Diego de Landa Diego de Landa Calderón, O.F.M. (12 November 1524 – 29 April 1579) was a Spanish Franciscan bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Yucatán. He led a campaign against idolatry and human sacrifice.Timmer, 480 In doing so, he burne ...
ordered an
Inquisition The Inquisition was a Catholic Inquisitorial system#History, judicial procedure where the Ecclesiastical court, ecclesiastical judges could initiate, investigate and try cases in their jurisdiction. Popularly it became the name for various med ...
in Maní ending with a ceremony called the
auto-da-fé An ''auto-da-fé'' ( ; from Portuguese language, Portuguese or Spanish language, Spanish (, meaning 'act of faith') was a ritualized or public penance carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries in condemnation of heresy, heretics, Aposta ...
, where the Maya were whipped and ceremonial objects and
Maya codices Maya codices (: ''codex'') are folding books written by the Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya script, Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican Amate, bark paper. The folding books are the products of professional scribes ...
were burned. Much of the heritage of the Maya was lost due to these actions. Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821, and in 1825 the area was assigned to the
Tekax Municipality Tekax Municipality (Yucatec Maya: "rejected tea or forest of Kax trees") is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (3,819.61 km2) of land and is located roughly southeast of the city of Mérida. History There is no ac ...
. In 1867 it passed to the
Ticul Municipality Ticul de Morales Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is located in the western part of the state at () 100 km south of the state capital city of Mérida. The municipality, which has an area of , in the 2005 ...
and in 1931 became the head of its own municipality.


Governance

The municipal president is elected for a three-year term. The town council has four councilpersons, who serve as Secretary and councilors of public works, potable water and ecology. The Municipal Council administers the business of the municipality. It is responsible for budgeting and expenditures and producing all required reports for all branches of the municipal administration. Annually it determines educational standards for schools. The Police Commissioners ensure public order and safety. They are tasked with enforcing regulations, distributing materials and administering rulings of general compliance issued by the council.


Communities

The head of the municipality is Maní, Yucatán. Besides the seat, the populated areas of the municipality include: Miramar, Mópila, Póh Chuu, San Chakán, San José, San Pedro, San Rafael, San Román, San Simón, Santa Amalia, Santa Ana, Santa Antonia, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Santa Teresa, Santa Ursula and Tipikal. The significant populations are shown below:


Local festivals

Every year from 15 to 24 August 24, a celebration is held in honor of the Virgin of the Assumption and from 27 December to 3 January is a festival for the Virgen de la Candelaria.


Tourist attractions

* Church and former Convent of San Miguel Archangel, built during the sixteenth century and where the
auto-da-fé An ''auto-da-fé'' ( ; from Portuguese language, Portuguese or Spanish language, Spanish (, meaning 'act of faith') was a ritualized or public penance carried out between the 15th and 19th centuries in condemnation of heresy, heretics, Aposta ...
occurred. * Former monastery of la Candelaria * Chapel of San Juan, built in the eighteenth century * Chapel of Santa Lucia, built in the eighteenth century * Chapel of Santiago, built in the eighteenth century * Church of the Magdalena, built in the sixteenth century (in Tipikal)


References

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