Yucatán, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Yucatán, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities...
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The Yucatán Peninsula (/ˌjuːkəˈtɑːn, -ˈtæn/ YOO-kə-TA(H)N, UK also /ˌjʊk-/ YUU-; Spanish: Península de Yucatán [peˈninsula ðe ʝukaˈtan]) is a large peninsula...
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Autonomous University of Yucatan (CIR-UADY), the Yucatán Science and Technology Park (Parque Científico Tecnológico de Yucatán, PCYTY) and the Peninsular...
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The Yucatán Channel or Straits of Yucatán (Spanish: Canal de Yucatán) is a strait between Mexico and Cuba. It connects the Yucatán Basin of the Caribbean...
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Republic of Yucatán (Spanish: República de Yucatán) was a sovereign state during two periods of the nineteenth century. The first Republic of Yucatán, founded...
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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...
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The Caste War of Yucatán or ba'atabil kichkelem Yúum (1847–1901) began with the revolt of native Maya people of the Yucatán Peninsula against Hispanic...
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Yucatán, located on the Gulf of Mexico in the north-west of the state some 30 minutes north of state capital Mérida (the biggest city on the Yucatán Peninsula)...
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of Yucatán is the flag used by the former Republic of Yucatán, when in the middle of 19th century it was proclaimed in the territory of the Yucatán Peninsula...
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Look up Yucatán or Yucatan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Yucatán is a Mexican state. Yucatán also commonly refers to Yucatán Peninsula, an area divided...
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federation as República Federada de Yucatán (English: Federated Republic of Yucatán) formed by the current states of Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo. Became...
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Chicxulub, Yucatán may refer to: Chicxulub Pueblo, a town Chicxulub Pueblo Municipality, a municipality, which has the above town as its seat Chicxulub...
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central region of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is about 100 km to the south south-east of Mérida, Yucatán, some 16 km east of...
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Quintana Roo (category Yucatán Peninsula)
located on the eastern part of the Yucatán Peninsula and is bordered by the states of Campeche to the west and Yucatán to the northwest, and by the Orange...
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Chichen Itza (category Maya sites in Yucatán)
Chichén Itzá is located in the eastern portion of Yucatán state in Mexico. The northern Yucatán Peninsula is karst, and the rivers in the interior all...
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Cenote (category Geography of Yucatán)
collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater. The term originated on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where the ancient Maya commonly used cenotes for water...
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Maya peoples (section Yucatan Peninsula)
of the largest groups of Maya live in the Yucatan Peninsula, which includes the Mexican states of Yucatán State, Campeche, and Quintana Roo as well as...
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State of Yucatán (Spanish: Congreso del Estado de Yucatán; Yucatec Maya: u Noj Mola’ayil u Péetlu’umil Yucatán), or simply the Congress of Yucatán, is the...
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conquest of Yucatán was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities in the Yucatán Peninsula...
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The Yucatán Platform or Yucatán Shelf is a geologic or physiographic province, and a continental and carbonate platform, in the Maya Block of the southernmost...
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Yucatec Maya language (redirect from Yucatán Maya)
[màːjaʔˈtʼàːn] Yucatec Maya pronunciation ) is a Mayan language spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula, including part of northern Belize. There is also a significant...
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The Province of Yucatán (/ˌjuːkəˈtɑːn, -ˈtæn/ YOO-kə-TA(H)N, UK also /ˌjʊk-/ YUU-; Spanish: Provincia de Yucatán [pɾoˈβinsja ðe ʝukaˈtan]), or the Captaincy...
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Mexicana Universal Yucatán is a pageant in Yucatán, Mexico, that selects that state's representative for the national Mexicana Universal pageant. The...
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Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática Yucatán Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México Media related to Motul, Yucatán at Wikimedia Commons...
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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...
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The Henequen industry in Yucatán is an agribusiness of a plant native to Yucatán, Mexico. After extraction from the plant, henequen is processed as a...
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The governor of the State of Yucatan is the head of the executive branch of the Mexican state of Yucatán, elected to a six-year-term and not eligible...
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Yucatán is a major, regional Mexican daily newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán. The newspaper covers the three Mexican states of the Yucatán Peninsula...
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1957. Largest municipalities in Yucatán by population Mérida, capital and largest municipality by population in Yucatán. Kanasín, second largest municipality...
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alternatively called X-box or more simply Xbox, is a town in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is part of the municipality of Chacsinkín and has a population of 229...
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