Sotuta

Sotuta Municipality within the Yucatec Maya Language: turning water is one of the 106 municipalities within the Mexican nation of Yucatn containing 613.15 rectangular kilometers of land and placed kind of 98 kilometers southeast of the metropolis of Merida. During pre-Hispanic instances, the town existed and served below chieftainship of Cocom. Sotuta method swirling waters and is stated to be synonymous with Nach Cocom who led the Maya opposition to the Spanish conquistadors. Nach did now not like to paintings with white colonialist and in 1535 he had slayed the heads of a set of Xiu nobles which in the end triggered his very own downfall.

In 1542 he had recorded victory over the Montejos at the warfare at Tiho and came lower back to Sotuta however the Spanish military captured the territory inside the yr. Nach had then agreed to a truce. He again ventured to combat the Spaniards in 1546 however confronted defeat and everyday a truce. His baptized name became Juan Cocom when he converted to Christianity. However, in 1562 when younger ladies had been crucified within the church he become incarcerated and disadvantaged of all his benefits and his brother who turned into questioned additionally dedicated suicide.