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www.yucatan.com.mx. Diario de Yucatán is a major, regional Mexican daily newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán. [1] The newspaper covers the three Mexican states of the Yucatán Peninsula - Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Diario de Yucatán, which was launched on May 31, 1925 [2] by Carlos R. Menéndez, has a daily circulation of ...
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 ...
On October 1, 1841, the Chamber of Deputies of Yucatán issued the Act of Independence of the Yucatán Peninsula. Santa Anna sent retired Mexican Supreme Court Justice and revolutionary hero Andrés Quintana Roo to dialogue with the Yucatecan authorities to negotiate their return to Mexico. The meeting resulted in signed treaties that were ...
In Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, a hidden underground world is under threat by the Maya Train TERESA DE MIGUEL, MEGAN JANETSKY and RODRIGO ABD May 31, 2024 at 12:05 AM
Mérida (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmeɾiða] ⓘ) is the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, and the largest city in southeastern Mexico. The city is also the seat of the eponymous municipality. It is located slightly inland from the northwest corner of the Yucatán Peninsula, about 35 km (22 mi) inland from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Yucatán, [ b ] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán, [ c ] is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It comprises 106 separate municipalities, and its capital city is Mérida. Located on the northern part of the Yucatán Peninsula, it is bordered by the states of ...
Sisal (Spanish pronunciation: [siˈsal]) is a seaport town in Hunucmá Municipality in the state of Yucatán, Mexico. It was the principal port of Yucatán during the henequen boom, later overshadowed when the more modern port of Progreso was built to the east. It lent its name to the agave-derived sisal fiber which was shipped through this port.
The Republic of Yucatán (Spanish: República de Yucatán) was a sovereign state during two periods of the nineteenth century. The first Republic of Yucatán, founded May 29, 1823, willingly joined the Mexican federation as the Federated Republic of Yucatán on December 23, 1823, less than seven months later. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The second Republic of ...