Tinúm Municipality (
Yucatec Maya
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: "crippled
numtzutzuy")
is a
municipality
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The term ''municipality' ...
in the
Mexican state
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* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
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**Nation state, a ...
of
Yucatán
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...
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
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and was located in the chieftainship of Cupules. Within the municipality is
Chichen Itza
Chichén Itzá , , often with the emphasis reversed in English to ; from () "at the mouth of the well of the Itza people, Itza people" (often spelled ''Chichen Itza'' in English and traditional Yucatec Maya) was a large Pre-Columbian era, ...
, 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
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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, OFM, (; ; ) or Anthony of Lisbon (; ; ; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões; 15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231) was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.
Anthony was born and raised by a wealth ...
, 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
Chichén Itzá , , often with the emphasis reversed in English to ; from () "at the mouth of the well of the Itza people, Itza people" (often spelled ''Chichen Itza'' in English and traditional Yucatec Maya) was a large Pre-Columbian era, ...
, Dzibiac, Halacal, Joya de Erik Thompson, Pisté, San Francisco Semé, San Juan Holtún, Tikincab, La Venta and Xnabá.
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Sacred Cenote
The Sacred Cenote (, , "sacred well"; alternatively known as the "Well of Sacrifice") is a water-filled sinkhole in limestone at the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, Maya archaeological site of Chichen Itza, in the northern Yucatán Peninsula. It ...
*
Hacienda Chichén
Notes
References
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Municipalities of Yucatán