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A distressing statistic of how this affects the indigenous communities can be noted, "In Yucatan only 8.9 % of the Mayans have achieved junior high and solely the 6.6% have studied beyond that point. The 83.4% of the Mayans 15 years old and older dropped out of school before finishing junior high." [42]
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Hacienda Chumichén was an estate built in the mid-19th century for the aristocratic de la Cámara family.It is located in Temax, Yucatán in the southeast of Mexico.. From its origins as a cattle ranch built for Nicolás de la Cámara y Castillo, it transitioned into a flourishing henequen plantation under the stewardship of Raymundo Cámara Luján, a prominent industrialist.
The henequen grown in the Yucatan was used around the world for rope and twine, and became known as sisal rope, named after the seaside town of Sisal, from where the rope was shipped. Today Sisal is a sleepy fishing village, being rediscovered by locals and visitors as a beach location for vacation homes.
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 ...
Calderitas is a city in the municipality of Othón P. Blanco, which is part of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.It is situated on the east coast of the Yucatán Peninsula, in Chetumal Bay, just northeast of the city of Chetumal.
The real name of this monument is "Caribbean Fantasy", located in the heart of downtown Cancún, between the Coba and Tulum avenues intersection. It is the nerve center of the daily urban traffic of the city. It has witnessed multiple social and political events, undergoing constant repairs and remodeling for years.
Sisal (Spanish pronunciation:) is a seaport town [1] in Hunucmá Municipality [citation needed] in the state of Yucatán, Mexico. [1] It was the principal port of Yucatán during the henequen boom, later overshadowed when the more modern port of Progreso was built to the east.