Champoton

Champoton is a small city in Champoton Municipality in the Mexican territory of Campeche, around 60 km south of the city of Campeche where the little Champoton waterway meets the bank of the Gulf of Mexico. At the 2010 statistics it had a populace of 30,881. Champoton, verifiably likewise called Chakanputun and Chanputun, was a city of the Maya human progress going back to in any event the 10^th century before it was vanquished by Spain in the 16^th century. There the well known fight "Mala Pelea" happened. In the principal Spanish investigation 1517, they were vanquished by the Maya. Juan de Grijalva's endeavor got payback in 1518.

As per the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, the Itzaes started to touch base at the Yucatan promontory in the year 435, started in Bacalar and ascending toward the north and west, along these lines they additionally possessed Chakan Putum. In the year 869, originating from Nonohual came Ah Mekat Tutul Xiu, who was the head of the tutul xiues and constrained the first Itzaes to withdraw into the wilderness and leave Chakan Putum and different urban communities, the tutul xiues were settled basically in Uxmal all the more late in 987, a portion of the Itzaes who lived "under the trees, under the powder and under the hopelessness" returned again to Chichen Itza, others of the Itzaes isolated and established Mayapan 1047 AD, the last from that point forward He knew them as the "Cocomes".