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Valladolid (Spanish: [baʝaðoˈlið] ⓘ; Sakiʼ in Maya) is a city located in the eastern region of the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is the seat of Valladolid Municipality . As of the 2020 census the population of the city was 56,494 inhabitants (the third-largest community in the state after Kanasín ), and that of the municipality was 85,460.
Valladolid Municipality (Saki' in Maya) has its seat in Valladolid, Yucatán in the southeastern part of the Mexican state of Yucatán. Valladolid is in the inland eastern part of the state at 20°40′N 88°12′W / 20.67°N 88.20°W / 20.67; -
The U.S. annexed the Republic of Texas and admitted it to the Union as the State of Texas. Mexico did not accept the annexation, while also continuing to claim the Nueces River as its border with Texas. The dispute ultimately provoked the Mexican–American War, which began on April 25, 1846.
In 1617, Yucatán was administered as a Captaincy General of New Spain.Its geographical position gave it some autonomy. During the Spanish Viceroyalty, the province and captaincy of Yucatán covered the current territories of Campeche, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and Yucatán, plus, nominally, the northern territories of the Petén and the territory that is currently Belize.
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Valladolid (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
Cenote Zací (Spanish pronunciation: [seˈnote saˈki]) is a cenote located in the city of Valladolid, Yucatán. [1] The name Zací (“White Hawk”) comes from the Mayan settlement that was located there. [1] [2] It is where the Capul clan fought against the first conquistadors. [2] Valladolid was later founded in 1543. [3]
The proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. 17th-century Franciscan historian Diego López de Cogolludo offers two theories in particular. [8] In the first one, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, having first arrived to the peninsula in 1517, inquired the name of a certain settlement and the response in Yucatec Mayan was "I don't understand", which sounded like yucatán to the ...