Location of Tekax in Yucatán

Church on main square, Tekax

Tekax, sometimes spelled Tecax (in full, Tekax de Álvaro Obregón), is a small city in the Mexican state of Yucatán, located at 20°12′07″N, 89°17′17″W in the southernmost part of the state. A city is an Urban area with a large Population and a particular Administrative, Legal, or Historical status Yucatán is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located on the north of the Yucatán Peninsula. Tekax (pronounced [teˈkɑʃ]) means "Place of the Forests" in the Yucatec Maya language. Yucatec Maya ("Maaya T'aan" in the revised Orthography of the Academia de Lenguas Mayas de Guatemala) is a Mayan language spoken in Tekax was briefly declared the capital of Yucatán in 1845. Year 1845 ( MDCCCXLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Tekax is also the name of the surrounding municipality of which the city of Tekax serves as municipal seat of government. Municipalities ( municipios in Spanish) are the second-level administrative division in Mexico (where the first-level administrative division is the

In the census of 2005 Tekax had a population of 23,524. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The municipality of Tekax reported a population of 37,454. It has an area of 3,819. 61 km² (1,474. 76 sq mi) and is the second-largest municipality in geographical area in the state, after Tizimín. Tizimín is a City and its surrounding municipality of the same name located in the north-east of the Mexican state of Yucatán. The majority of the population are Maya. The Maya peoples constitute a diverse range of the Native American peoples of southern Mexico and northern Central America.

References

• Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• Yucatán Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

External links

• Tekax on Yucatan Today