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Progreso (Spanish pronunciation: [pɾoˈɣɾeso]) is a port city in the Mexican state of Yucatán, located on the Gulf of Mexico in the north-west of the state some 30 minutes north of state capital Mérida (the biggest city on the Yucatán Peninsula) by highway. As of the Mexican census of 2010, Progreso had an official population of 37,369 ...
Progreso is one of the youngest towns in the Yucatán. [1] Juan Miguel Castro Martín, owner of several sisal haciendas, including an estate called Hacienda San Pedro Chimay was the founder of the Port of Progreso. [3] He began urging development of a new port in 1840 to further the henequen trade. [4]
The Port of Progreso is a port facility located at Progreso, Yucatán, on Mexico's Gulf coast. It lies on the Yucatán Peninsula, 36 kilometres (22 mi) northeast of the state capital at Mérida. [1] A multipurpose port, Progreso handles cruise ships, breakbulk, dry bulk and containers, and has a single jetty handling tanker traffic. [1]
Scorpion Reef (Spanish: Arrecife Alacranes) is an atoll containing a small group of islets in the Gulf of Mexico, about 125 kilometres (78 mi; 67 NM) off the northern coast of the state of Yucatán, Mexico. [2]
A panorama of the Mayapan excavations from the top of the Castle of King Kukulcan. The ethnohistorical sources – such as Diego de Landa's Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, compiled from native sources in the 16th century – recount that the site was founded by Kukulcan (the Mayan name of Quetzalcoatl, the Toltec king, culture hero, and demigod) after the fall of Chichen Itza.
Progreso Independent School District, public school district in Progreso, Texas, USA Progreso Lakes, Texas , city in Hidalgo County Progresso, New Mexico , small unincorporated town in Torrance County
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 ...
Progreso is a city in Mexicali Municipality, Baja California. Located in the Sonoran Desert, Progreso had a population of 12,557 as of 2010. [1] Progreso gives its name to one of the western delegations of the municipality. [2]