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22 unusual facts about Yucatan


Albinegros de Orizaba

After having a bad year in the Primera A The owner sales the club and is relocated in Yucatán where it played under the name of Lagartos de Tabasco remaining the only affiliate second division team which remains as the city's club.

Azteca de Gyves

In Mexico, her work has been shown in Mexico City, Guerrero, Yucatán, Monterrey and Oaxaca.

Bones of the Earth

And the possibility of the Chicxulub meteor having been so great as to detune the song of the Earth for a decade or a century, deafening the dinosaurs so they could not migrate, causing them to starve.

Carl Johan Calleman

In 1998 he was invited to be one of the main speakers at a conference about the Mayan calendar in Mérida, Yucatán.

Comayagua

Comayagua was founded with the name Santa María de la Nueva Valladolid by Conquistador Alonso de Cáceres under orders from Francisco de Montejo, Governor of Yucatán on December 8, 1537.

Curve-winged Sabrewing

curvipennis formerly included the Wedge-tailed Sabrewing (C. pampa) of the Yucatán and the Long-tailed Sabrewing (C. excellens) of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec under the English name Wedge-tailed Sabrewing.

Diario de Yucatán

Diario de Yucatán is a major, regional Mexican daily newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán.

Drymaeus serperastrus

The distribution of Drymaeus serperastrus includes the following states of Mexico: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatán, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Tamaulipas.

Elena Tonetta

She won the second place in the final of the Junior World Cup, at Mérida (Mexico) in 2006.

Flores, El Petén

The Itza left the Yucatán region in the 13th century and built the city later known as Tayasal as their capital.

José Ignacio de Cavero y Cárdenas

Born on 29 June 1757 in Mérida, Yucatán then part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, his parents were Diego Cavero Castro and Juana de Díaz Cárdenas.

Juan Coronel

Juan Coronel (born 1569, in Spain; died 1651, at Mérida, Mexico) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary.

Juan J. Orosa

Dissatisfied, Juan decided to leave everything and move to the beach at Chicxulub, Yucatán, where he started his formal writing career.

Leary v. United States

On December 20, 1965, petitioner left New York by automobile, intending a vacation trip to the Mexican state of Yucatán.

Mario Menéndez Rodríguez

Mario Renato Menéndez Rodríguez (b. 1937 in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico) is the director-general of Por Esto!, one of the largest daily newspaper in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.

Por Esto!

Por Esto! (English: "That's Why!") is a daily Mexican newspaper headquartered in Mérida, Yucatán.

Ricardo Dájer Nahum

Ricardo Dájer Nahum (born February 19, 1955 in Mérida, Yucatán) is a Mexican politician of Lebanese origin affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

In 1995 ran for and lost the election for the municipal president of Mérida to Patricio Patrón Laviada, current governor of the state.

Sisal

They were originally shipped from the Spanish colonial port of Sisal in Yucatán (thus the name).

XHST-TV

Trecevisión is an educational and public television network owned and operated by the government of State of Yucatán in Merida, Yucatán.

Yucatán, Mexico

Mexico's portion of the Yucatán Peninsula, comprising the states of Yucatán, Campeche, and Quintana Roo.

Yucatan, Minnesota

Yucatan is an unincorporated community in Yucatan Township, Houston County, Minnesota, United States.


1958 Atlantic hurricane season

On June 14, a tropical depression formed about halfway between the Yucatán Peninsula and Tamaulipas.

Agave fourcroydes

The first to document the plant and its usefulness for ropes and other naval utensils was José María Lanz, a Mexican-born engineer in service of the Spanish Navy, who studied henequen in Yucatán in 1783.

Allen Lambert

William Thorsell, CEO of the Royal Ontario Museum, wrote in a tribute to Allen Lambert: "For those who build, it is not a question of whether a legacy remains, but what its quality is. In Athens, in the Yucatan, in Paris, architecture still speaks eloquently centuries after so much else of value is gone. In 1967, a banker insisted that Toronto be remembered with respect."

Caste War of Yucatán

During the Mexican War of Independence, the intelligentsia of Yucatán watched the events to the north, and following 1820 organized their own resistance to Spain, forming the Patriotic Confederation, which declared its own independence from Spain in 1821.

Community Agroecology Network Alternative Spring Break

Tzucacab is located in the Tzucacab Municipality in the state of Yucatán, with a population of about 14,000 in 2010.

Copán

The outer doorway is framed by the giant mask of a deity, and has stylistic similarities with the Chenes regional style of distant Yucatán.

Dewdrops in the Garden

The album drew inspiration from Lady Kier's travels to the Hopi ruins in the Painted Desert and pyramids in the Yucatan and Dmitri's travels to the Grand Canyon and Joshua Tree.

Diego López de Cogolludo

A native of Alcalá de Henares in Spain, he took the habit of St. Francis at the convent of San Diego, on March 31, 1629, and emigrated to Yucatán, where he became successively lector in theology, guardian, and finally provincial of his order.

Francisco de Toral

In Yucatán he led an investigation into the alleged abuses of the Maya by Diego de Landa, employing Gaspar Antonio Chi as his interpreter; Landa would eventually be acquitted, and follow Toral as Bishop of Yucatán.

Gilberto Keb Baas

Gilberto Keb Baas (born October 21, 1977 in Hunucmá, Yucatán, Mexico) is a Mexican professional boxer in the Light Flyweight division.

Himno de Yucatán

On In mid-2000, after many years of not being heard at an official ceremony, the Anthem of Yucatán was heard in the fifth governance report of then Governor Víctor Cervera Pacheco.

History of Belize

In 1642, and again in 1648, pirates sacked Salamanca de Bacalar, the seat of Spanish government in southern Yucatán.

Hurricane Beulah

It tracked through the Caribbean, struck the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico as a major hurricane, and moved west-northwest into the Gulf of Mexico, briefly gaining Category 5 intensity.

Juan Coronel

Diego López de Cogolludo, Historia de Yucatán (Madrid, 1688; Mérida, 1842);

He was sent to Yucatán, Mexico, in 1590, and there so familiarized himself with the Maya language that he was able to teach it, the historian Diego López de Cogolludo being one of his pupils.

Martín Sessé y Lacasta

Various companies of scientists were sent to such widely separated destinations as the Pacific coast of Canada, the Greater Antilles, Yucatán, Nicaragua, and San Francisco.

Proposed Book of Mormon geographical setting

Early LDS became engrossed with John Lloyd Stephens’ 1841 bestseller, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.

Ricky Concha

In October 2010, Concha beat the veteran Jorge Cordova, the bout was held at the Polifuncional in Kanasin, Yucatán, Mexico.

Robert Redfield

After a series of published field studies from Mexican communities (Tepoztlán in Morelos and Chan Kom in Yucatán), in 1953 he published The Primitive World and its Transformation and in 1956, Peasant Society and Culture.

Samuel Kirkland Lothrop

Lothrop is also known for his research on goldwork and other artifacts from Costa Rica, the Veraguas Province of Panama, and the Sacred Cenote at Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico.

Seated Yucatan Woman

Seated Yucatan Woman is a bronze sculpture, by Francisco Zúñiga.

Sin Dejar Huella

In the film, Ana, a fake Mayan art smuggler, and Aurelia, a maquiladora worker, flee from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in Northern Mexico and those who pursue them to Cancún in the Yucatán peninsula province of Quintana Roo.

Texan brig Wharton

Leaving Galveston in January, Wharton reached Commodore Moore's squadron off the Yucatan port of Sisal on April 18, 1842.

Texan schooner San Antonio

Commodore Moore dispatched her to pick up Francis R. Lubbock, a survivor of President Mirabeau B. Lamar's Santa Fe expedition, who had escaped his captors and made his way to Yucatan.

Thomas Sills

Sills' work was highly intuitive and he too sought inspiration from primitive art—in the 1950s he made frequent trips to Mexico to study the sculptures, frescos and architecture of Chiapas and the Yucatan.

TiQal

The game acts as an educational game as well in that it tours the Yucatán Peninsula, and between levels, gives short lessons about Mayan culture and Mesoamerica.

Valladolid, Yucatán

Named after Valladolid, at the time the capital of Spain, the first Valladolid in Yucatán was established by Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo's nephew on May 27, 1543 at some distance from the current town, at a lagoon called Chouac-Ha in the municipality of Tizimin.