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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.
Location of Valladolid in Yucatán Theater in Xocén 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; -
Map of Mexico between 1836 and 1846, from the secession of Texas, Rio grande, and Yucatán to the Mexican–American War of 1846. On August 22, 1846, due to the war with the United States, the Federal Constitution of the United Mexican States of 1824 was restored. There remained the separation of Yucatán, but 2 years later Yucatán ...
Mayan ruins in Xcaret It is part of the remains that the park preserves.. Xcaret has many reserves that are open to the public. According to the research by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the first buildings of the site can be dated to 200 to 600 A.D., but the majority of them are from the period from 1200 to 1550 A.D.
Satellite view of the Yucatán Peninsula. The Yucatán Peninsula is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the east and by the Gulf of Mexico to the north and west. It can be delimited by a line running from the Laguna de Términos on the Gulf coast through to the Gulf of Honduras on the Caribbean coast.
Valladolid (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
Satellite view of the Yucatán Peninsula. The Maya civilization occupied the Maya Region, a wide territory that included southeastern Mexico and northern Central America; this area included the entire Yucatán Peninsula, and all of the territory now incorporated into the modern countries of Guatemala and Belize, as well as the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. [4]
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 ...