The Yucatec Mayas or Peninsular Mayans are

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who live in the Yucatan Peninsula in the Mexican states of

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and

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and in the Districts of Corozal and

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. The vast majority of them speak the

Yucatec Maya language 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 ...

, or maayat'aan (autoglottonym).

History

The preclassical period spanned from 2000 BC. C. to 250 AD. C.. During this time the early

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gave rise. In the classic period (250-900) there was a lot of construction, urban planning, development of art and Mayan thought. During the postclassic period (950-1539) the

began to collapse and several cities were abandoned. Of 1847 to 1901 the War of Castes became in the Yucatan Peninsula. In her, the majority of the natives of the centre-south of the then #be of Yucatán (which spanned all the peninsula) infuriated against of the "targets" of the region because of the oppression that suffered. Cecilio Chi, Jacinto Pat and Manuel Antonio Ay were the three main leaders of this war during his first stage. It finishes with the entrance of the federal army Mexican to Chan Santa Cruz in 1901. The typical women's costume consists of a suit made up of the

huipil ''Huipil'' (Nahuatl: ''huīpīlli'' ; Ch'orti': ''b’ujk''; Chuj: ''nip'') is the most common traditional garment worn by indigenous women from central Mexico to Central America. It is a loose-fitting tunic, generally made from two or three ...

decorated with flowers on the neck, the doublet, which goes on top of the hipil, and the

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, which goes to the bottom. The terno is only used during important celebrations and it is the hipil that is used every day. The typical men's costume consists of a white guayabera, white pants, a hippie hat and a red bandanna. The best known tradition is that of the '' Janal Pixan'' (lunch of the ánimas), in which they plant altars of rendados to the dead persons. Also it splits of the men till the

milpa In agriculture, a milpa is a field for growing food crops and a crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica, especially in the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico. The word ''milpa'' derives from the Nahuatl words ''milli'' and ''pan''. Based on th ...

(''kool'', in maya).

Demographics

Currently there are 1,646,782 Yucatec Mayans in Mexican territory. The

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, which has the largest population belonging to this ethnic group, is Yucatán.INEGI
The majority of people belonging to this ethnic group speak the

, which has 795,499 speakers in

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