Oxkutzcab

Oxkutzcab is a town positioned to the south of the Mexican state of Yucatan, head of the municipality of Oxkutzcab. Its name in Yucatec Maya way Land or Place of three wild turkeys or place of ramon, tobacco and honey. Its population, frequently of Mayan descent, has about 30,000 populations. Oxkutzcab is an agricultural middle, focused in particular on the production of tropical culmination which includes citrus, zapote, avocado, mango, papaya, mamey, huayas, saramuyos and plums.

Oxkutzcab has a records that goes again to the pre-Columbian times, to the autumn of the Mayan manor of Mayapan, Oxkutzcab became the capital of a nearby manor ruled via the Tutul Xiu own family. In 1550 the Spaniards based the cutting-edge population, around a venture attended through Franciscan priests. Oxkutzcab acquired the class of town, for the primary time, at the beginning of the 19th century. During the Caste War in 1847 the town became taken and sacked by means of the rebellious Maya, later the Mexican Army recovered it and became rebuilt. In 1879 the railroad that linked it with Merida become completed.