Dzidzantun

Dzidzantun Municipality is one of the 106 municipalities in the Mexican kingdom of Yucatan containing 198.00 rectangular kilometres of land and positioned kind of seventy five kilometres northeast of the town of Merida. Before the appearance of the Spanish, the location belonged to the chieftainship of Ah Kin Chel. After the conquest the region became part of the encomienda device. The encomienda turned into mounted in 1549 for Hernan Munoz Vaquiano. Yucatan d its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821 and in 1825, the area was assigned to the Temax Municipality. In 1918 it changed into targeted as its very own municipality.

During the 17th century there have been many pirates who attacked the Spanish colonies, and many towns inside the Yucatan peninsula had been raided which covered Dzidzantun. Franciscans, during the colonial days while the friars had a robust keep at the colony, constructed many monasteries inside the Yucatan which covered the monastery at Dzidzantun. Mural paintings in Yucatan had been issue to vandalism and also because of climatic situations of the tropics. Some of the monasteries inside the early instances had many spiritual work of art. A few murals have been uncovered within the Dzidzantun monastery also.