Tixkokob Municipality (In the

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Language: “Place of the poisonous snakes”) is a

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in the

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. Its municipal seat is located in the City of

Tixkokob Tixkokob (, meaning place of poisonous snakes in Mayan) is a town in the Mexican state of Yucatán, located in the north central part of the state. It is the seat of Tixkokob Municipality and is located about 24 miles east of the city of Méri ...

. The town of Tixkokob is famous within the area for high quality hammock weaving. The municipality made up largely of working class communities.

Location

Tixkokob is located in the center of the Yucatán henequen zone, about 24 miles east of the city of Merida, capital of the state. Tixkokob is about halfway along the road from Merida to

Izamal Izamal () is a small city in the Mexican Yucatán (state), state of Yucatán, east of state capital Mérida, Yucatán, Mérida, in southern Mexico. Izamal was continuously occupied throughout most of Mesoamerican chronology; in 2000, the city' ...

History

In antiquity, it was part of the province of Ceh-Pech. Upon the

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, it became part of the

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system. It is referenced in a document dated 1549, indicating 540 indigenous persons affiliated with the encomendero. In 1821, Yucatán was declared independent of the Spanish Crown. In 1825 the area was part of the Coastal region, with its headquarters in Izamal. On 10 April 1843, 500 soldiers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Francisco Pérez and General Peña y Barragán, defended the Mexican government against separatist Yucatecan forces in Tixkokob. In July 1867, Tixkokob was designated as a Villa by the State Congress. In 1914, it was elevated to the rank of city, but a few months later demoted again. In 1923 the

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system was put in place and Tixkokob became a free pueblo.

Governance

The municipal president is elected for a term of three years. The president appoints nine Councilpersons to serve on the board for three year terms, as the Secretary and councilors of culture, public image, public works, sports, ecology, cemeteries, parks and gardens, and nomenclature.

Communities

The municipality is made up of 17 different communities, of which the most important are:

Places of interest

* The archaeological zone of

Ake Ake (or Aké in Spanish orthography) is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It is located in the municipality of Tixkokob, in the Mexican state of Yucatán; 40 km (25 mi) east of Mérida, Yucatán. The n ...

is located in the municipality of Tixkokob, 15 kilometers from the township of Tixkokob. * Cenote Yaax Ha * Hacienda Ruinas de Ake * Hacienda Hubila * Hacienda Kankabchén * Hacienda Kanyunyun *

Hacienda Katanchel Hacienda Katanchel is located in the Tixkokob Municipality in the state of Yucatán in southeastern Mexico. It is one of the properties that arose during the nineteenth century henequen boom. In the late 1990s, the property was restored and conver ...

* Hacienda Nohchan * Hacienda Oncan * Hacienda San Antonio Millet * Hacienda Santa María Chí

Notables

Notable locals include the following: Hernando Pech Tixkokob chieftain who was accused of attending a Tehchamac human sacrifice, Tehchamac was located near the border of the province of Chepech Chacan. Ah Kin Chablé Tixkokob priest, who served as an informant to Adelantado Montejo. The Maya priest converted to Christianity and took the name of D. Lorenzo Chablé. Arsenio Puerto Lara A supporter of Carrillo Puerto and a member of the socialist league when she was young. Carrillo Puerto received the support of thousands of henequen workers. General Cardenas supported Lara to succeed General Canto Echeverria. In his tenure at the committee, Lara obtained significant benefits for the farmers of Tixkokob. Carlos R. Menéndez Writer, journalist and historian (1872–1961), founder of the Printing Company currently publishes the newspaper Diario de Yucatán.

References

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