Tixkokob

Tixkokob in Maya Yucatec: Place of toxic vipers is a population of the Mexican country of Yucatan, placed in the middle-north of the country, to 22 km of the metropolis of Mérida. It is the head of the municipality of Tixkokob. Prior to the conquest of Yucatan, the location wherein Tixkokob is positioned belonged to the Mayan chiefdom of the Ceh Pech. There is not any report of the date of basis of the population and its oldest reference corresponds to the year of 1549, as an encomienda belonging to Francisco de Montejo and Leon el Mozo.

When establishing the nation of Yucatan after the independence of Mexico, Tixkokob became covered within the Party of the Coast, whose head changed into the town of Izamal; later, it changed into constituted as a celebration head and in 1867 with the aid of decree of the Yucatan Congress it received the popularity of Villa. In 1914 he turned into given the category of city; However, some months later this decree became repealed and back to the fame of villa and on January 24, 1923, it became in turn repealed that gave it that category, last with the rank of metropolis until these days.