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One of Merida's twin mansions, known as the Cámara Houses or "Las Casas Gemelas" Cathedral of Mérida as it appeared in 2010 Mérida was founded in 1542 by the Spanish conquistadors , including Francisco de Montejo the Younger and Juan de la Cámara , and named after the town of Mérida in Extremadura, Spain.
Map of Mexico with Yucatán highlighted. Yucatán is a state in southeastern Mexico that is divided into 106 municipalities, organized into 7 administrative regions.According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the twenty-second most populated state with 2,320,898 inhabitants and the 20th largest by land area spanning 39,524.4 square kilometres (15,260.5 sq mi).
Monumento a la Patria, an iconic monument along the avenue, sculpted by Rómulo Rozo. Paseo de Montejo is an avenue of Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.It is named after Francisco de Montejo, the Spanish conquistador who founded the city in 1542, and is the location of some of the most iconic buildings and monuments of the city.
Dzemul Municipality (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “ravaged mound” is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing 123.91 square kilometres (47.84 sq mi) of land and located roughly 47 kilometres (29 mi) northeast of the city of Mérida. [2]
During pre-Hispanic times, the town fell within the provinces under the chieftainship of Cheles. After the conquest the area became part of the encomienda system. In 1544 Francisco de Montejo established a town at the site.
Merida (Brave), the main character of the 2012 animated film Brave; Merida (Dragon Prince), a fictional people created by fantasy author Melanie Rawn for her Dragon Prince series; Merida, a genus of moth in the family Geometridae; Merida Bikes, one of the world's largest bicycle makers, based in Taiwan; Mérida Initiative, an American-led drug ...
The proper derivation of the word Yucatán is widely debated. 17th-century Franciscan historian Diego López de Cogolludo offers two theories in particular. [8] In the first one, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, having first arrived to the peninsula in 1517, inquired the name of a certain settlement and the response in Yucatec Mayan was "I don't understand", which sounded like yucatán to the ...