Cacalchén

Also known as Cacalchen

Cacalchén (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “place of the well with two mouths”) is a locality and the municipal seat of the eponymous Cacalchén Municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán.

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Settlement.official_name: Cacalchén
Settlement.settlement_type: Locality
Settlement.image_skyline: Cacalchén, Yucatán (03).jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Principal Church of Cacalchén, Yucatán
Settlement.pushpin_map: Mexico Yucatán#Mexico
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: left
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Cacalchén
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: 40px Mexico
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: 40px Yucatán
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Cacalchén Municipality
Settlement.population_as_of: 2010
Settlement.population_total: 6,787
Settlement.population_blank1_title: Demonym
Settlement.timezone: Central Standard Time
Settlement.utc_offset: -6
Settlement.elevation_m: 10

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Cacalchén
Population: 6787
Elevation: 10
Image: Cacalchén, Yucatán (02).jpg
Dialing code: 991
Licence plate code: 31

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Commons category: Cacalchén, Yucatán
native label: Cacalchén
time of earliest written record: 1501-00-00
postal code: 97460

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Cacalchén (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “place of the well with two mouths”) is a locality and the municipal seat of the eponymous Cacalchén Municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán.

==History== There is no extant record of Mayan settlement prior to the conquest. After the conquest the area became part of the encomienda system and Maria Sanchez Sosa was one of the first known encomenderos.