Official Name: | Tecoh |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the Municipality in Mexico |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Yucatán |
Leader Title: | Municipal President |
Leader Name: | Victor Armando Pacheco May[1] |
Area Total Km2: | 452.2 |
Population As Of: | 2005 [2] [3] |
Population Total: | 15438 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Demonym |
Timezone: | Central Standard Time |
Utc Offset: | -6 |
Timezone Dst: | Central Daylight Time |
Utc Offset Dst: | -5 |
Coordinates: | 20.7333°N -117°W |
Elevation M: | 16 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Area Code: | 988 |
Postal Code: | 97820 |
Blank Name Sec1: | INEGI Code |
Blank Info Sec1: | 076 |
Blank Name Sec2: | Major Airport |
Blank Info Sec2: | Merida (Manuel Crescencio Rejón) International Airport |
Blank1 Name Sec2: | IATA Code |
Blank1 Info Sec2: | MID |
Blank2 Name Sec2: | ICAO Code |
Blank2 Info Sec2: | MMMD |
Footnotes: | Municipalities of Yucatan |
Tecoh Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is located 40 km south-east of Mérida, Yucatán. It has a municipal capital of the same name. As of 2003, the city Tecoh had a population of about 8,500 people. Most of the population is Maya. A number of buildings in the town were built atop older Pre-Columbian foundations. "Tecoh" means "Place of the Puma" in the Yucatec Maya language, which is still widely spoken here.
Most of the farms in Tecoh are used to grow henequen, sugar, corn, and tropical fruit.
The municipality is made up of 20 communities, of which the most important are:[1]
The archaeological site of Mayapan.[1]