Juan Cocom | |
Native Name: | "Nachi Cocom" |
Native Name Lang: | yua |
Tribe: | Sotuta Kuchkabal |
Birth Name: | "Nachi Cocom" |
Birth Date: | c. 1510 |
Death Date: | 1562 |
Death Place: | Yucatán, New Spain |
Successor: | Lorenzo Cocom |
Nicknames: | Juan Cocom |
Battles: | Battle of T’ho |
Office: | Halach Uinik |
Term End: | 1561 |
Children: | Francisco Cocom |
Mother Tongue: | Yucatec Maya |
Nachi Cocom (? - 1562), known to Spanish conquistadors as Juan Cocom , was a halach uinik (Mayan theocratic leader) of the Sotuta kuchkabal in modern day Yucatán, Mexico, and a descendant of the Cocom lineage that in previous centuries had led the League of Mayapan. He is notable for organizing armed resistance to the Spanish conquistadors under Francisco de Montejo the Younger, but was defeated in a battle at the ruins of T’ho in the center of modern day Mérida, Yucatán on June 10–11, 1542.[1] He survived the battle and eventually submitted to Spanish rule, becoming baptized as Juan Cocom. He is considered by some to be the “last” halach uinik of the Maya,[2] though the Itzá of Nojpetén resisted Spanish dominion until 1697.