Temax

Temax Municipality is one of the 106 municipalities within the Mexican country of Yucatan containing 329.52 square kilometers of land and positioned more or less eighty kilometers northeast of the town of Merida. It is unknown which chieftainship the vicinity was underneath prior to the appearance of the Spanish. After the conquest the vicinity became a part of the encomienda device. The encomienda changed into set up for the minor kids of Juan de Sosa in 1549. In 1579 it exceeded to Juan de Sosa Velázquez and in 1607 3-quarters exceeded to Bernardo de Sosa Velázquez and one-zone surpassed to Pedro de Sosa.

In 1639 Juan de Villa Real become the encomendero and by means of 1688 Ana Dorantes possessed the agree with. Yucatán d its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821 and in 1825; the location changed into assigned to the coastal region with its headquarters in Izamal Municipality. It changed into particular as its very own municipality via 1922. Temax, though now a sleepy city, in the current past its records had witnessed a disturbed and captivating duration on account of momentous caste wars at some point of the middle of the 19th century.