Tinúm Municipality
{{Short description|Municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán}}
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|subdivision_name = 40px Mexico
|subdivision_type1 = State
|subdivision_name1 = 40px Yucatán
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|government_type = 22px 2012–2015{{cite web|title=Aprueban registros|url=http://yucatan.com.mx/merida/politica-merida/aprueban-registros|publisher=Diario de Yucatán|date=3 April 2015|access-date=15 August 2015|location=Mérida, Mexico|language=es}}
|leader_title = Municipal President
|leader_name = Natalia Mis Mex{{Cite web| title = Municipios de Yucatán »Tinúm| url = http://www.yucatan.gob.mx/estado/municipios/ver_municipio.php?id=091 | access-date = 15 August 2015 |language=es }}
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|established_title = Mexico Ind.
|established_date = 1821
|established_title2 = Yucatán Est.
|established_date2 = 1824
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|population_total = 11,421
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|timezone = Central Standard Time
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|elevation_m = 24
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|blank_name_sec1 = INEGI Code
|blank_info_sec1 = 091
|blank_name_sec2 = Major Airport
|blank_info_sec2 = Merida (Manuel Crescencio Rejón) International Airport
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|blank1_info_sec2 = MID
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Tinúm Municipality (Yucatec Maya: "crippled numtzutzuy{{#tag:ref|"cereus pentagonus: Numtzutzuy (Gaumer); reported also as "nuntzutzuy." Sp. Tuna silvestre. Common. Stems climbing, 3-5-angled, rarely 6-8-angled, the spines 4 cm. long or less; flowers 14-20 cm. long, white; fruit large, red. The fruit is edible. The spines are sometimes used as a substitute for pins".{{cite web|last1=Standley|first1=Paul C.|title=Flora of Yucatán|url=https://archive.org/stream/floraofyucatanfistan#page/366/mode/2up|publisher=Field Museum of Natural History|access-date=15 August 2015|location=Chicago, Illinois|page=366|date=1930}}|group="n"}}"){{cite web|title=El Significado de los Nombres de los Pueblos de Yucatán: Plantas|url=http://www.meridadeyucatan.com/el-significado-de-los-nombres-de-los-pueblos-de-yucatan-plantas/|website=Merida de Yucatan|publisher=Crónicas de la Ciudad Blanca|access-date=15 August 2015|location=Mérida, Mexico|language=es}} is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing ({{convert|393.44|km2|disp=or|abbr=on}}) of land and is located roughly {{convert|140|km}} east of the city of Mérida.
History
There is no accurate data on when the town was founded, but it was a settlement before the conquest and was located in the chieftainship of Cupules. Within the municipality is Chichen Itza, a city built in the Post Classic Maya period, which reached its apex between the 11th and 12th centuries.
After colonization by the Spanish, the area became part of the encomienda system with various encomenderos, beginning with Juan García de Llanos in 1549 and passing to the crown in 1551. In 1607, it passed to Baltasar Pacheco Dorantes.{{cite book|last1=García Bernal|first1=Manuela Cristina|title=Población y encomienda en Yucatán bajo los Austrias|date=1978|publisher=Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos|location=Sevilla|isbn=978-8-400-04399-5|page=515| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYfY8H8P4VUC&pg=PA503|access-date=15 August 2015|language=es}}
Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821. In 1825{{cite web|title=Estado de Yucatán. División Territorial de 1810 a 1995|url=http://www.inegi.org.mx/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/integracion/pais/divi_terri/1810-1985/yuc/YUCATAN.pdf|website=inegi|publisher=Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática|access-date=15 August 2015|location=Aguascalientes, Mexico|language=es|date=1996|page=15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223101757/http://www.inegi.org.mx/prod_serv/contenidos/espanol/bvinegi/productos/integracion/pais/divi_terri/1810-1985/yuc/YUCATAN.pdf|archive-date=2015-12-23}} the Mexican government assigned this community to the Valladolid Municipality. In 1918 Tinúm was designated as an independent municipality.
Governance
The municipal president is elected for a three-year term. The town council has seven councilpersons, who serve as Secretary and councilors of public works, police commissaries, education, ecology, public monuments and sports.{{cite web|title=Tinúm | url=http://www.inafed.gob.mx/work/enciclopedia/EMM31yucatan/index.html|website=inafed|publisher=Enciclopedia de Los Municipios y Delegaciones de México|access-date=15 August 2015|location=Mérida, Mexico|language=es}}
Communities
The seat of the municipality is Tinúm. The municipality has 37 populated places besides the seat, including Balantún, Chichén Itzá, Chichil, Dzulotok, Macuchén, Pisté, San Francisco, San Felipe, San Felipe Nuevo, San José, San Nicolás, Santa María, Tohopkú, and X-Calakoop. The significant populations are shown below:
Carretera Federal 180 - Pisté, Yucatan, Mexico - August 16, 2014.jpg|Pisté
Xcalacoop YU.JPG|X-Calacoop
Local festivals
Every year on 12 June, the town celebrates the feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, its patron saint.
Tourist attractions
- Church of Saint Anthony of Padua, built during the colonial era
- Church of Conception, built during the colonial era
- archeological sites at Bacancú, Canahum, Chichen Itza, Dzibiac, Halacal, Joya de Erik Thompson, Pisté, San Francisco Semé, San Juan Holtún, Tikincab, La Venta and Xnabá.
- Sacred Cenote
- Hacienda Chichén
Notes
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