Maxcanú Municipality

Maxcanú
Municipality
Location o Maxcanú in Yucatán
Maxcanú Location o Maxcanú in Yucatán
Coordinates: 20°36′N 89°54′W
Kintra	Mexico
State	Yucatán
Govrenment
• Municipal Preses	Fausto Jose Pereyra Carmona
Area
• Total	1320.82 km2 (509.97 sq mi)
Population  (2005)
• Total	20,830
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time)
INEGI Code	048
Major Airport	Merida (Manuel Crescencio Rejón) Internaitional Airport
IATA Code	MID
ICAO Code	MMMD
Website	Nuestros municipios - Maxcanú

Maxcanú is a municipality (municipio) in the wastren/soothwastren section o Mexican state o Yucatán. Its seat is the toun o Maxcanú. The municipality covers a aurie o approximately 1,321 km² an haes a total population o ower 18,800 inhabitants.

The municipality shares borders wi the follaein adjacent municipalities: Celestún, Samahíl, an Kinchil to the north, Chocholá, Kopomá, an Opichén tae the east, an Halachó tae the sooth. A smaw portion o its soothren border is shared wi the State o Campeche an aw.

Commonties

Those considered the mair important are, Chunchucmil, Kanach, Cochol, Paraiso, Santa Rosa an Santo Domingo. An the Haciendas o Simón, Xlam Riti, Crucero Copop, Ché, Canzote, Memu y Xamail. The minor touns in the municipality are: San Rafael, San Fernando, Granada, Chactún, Sombrilla, Chan Chocholá an Coahuilá.

Landmarks

Airchaeological

A temple dedicatit tae Oor Lady o Munt Caramel that wis built in the seiventeent hunderyear an twa chapels, the first in honor o St. Michael the Airchangel an the seicont at the Three Crosses; an three umwhile haciendas Kochol cried Santo Domingo, Grenada an Santa Rosa.

Prehispanic

Thare is an airchaeological steid locatit near Chunchucmil, bearin the same name.

See an aw

• Municipalities o Yucatán

Freemit airtins

• http://www.yucatan.gob.mx/estado/municipios/31048a.htm Archived 2007-02-26 at the Wayback Machine - Geographic, demographic, and historic information, in Spanish, about the Municipality of Maxcanú.