Cacalchén
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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.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Cacalchén
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Locality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Cacalchén, Yucatán (03).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Principal Church of Cacalchén, Yucatán
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- Mexico Yucatán#Mexico
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- left
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- 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
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- Demonym
- Settlement.timezone
- Central Standard Time
- Settlement.utc_offset
- -6
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 10
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Cacalchén
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Cacalchén Municipality
- Population
- 6787
- Elevation
- 10
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Capital of
- Cacalchén Municipality
- 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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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Demographics
- Local festivals
- Tourist attractions
- References
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cacalchén” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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