Panabá Municipality

Panabá
—  Municipality  —
Coat of arms
Panabá
Coordinates: 21°17′N 88°16′W / 21.283°N 88.267°W / 21.283; -88.267Coordinates: 21°17′N 88°16′W / 21.283°N 88.267°W / 21.283; -88.267
Country	Mexico
State	Yucatán
Mexico Ind.	1821
Yucatan Est.	1824
Municipality Est.
Government
– Municipal President
Elevation	10 m (27 ft)
Population (2000)
– Total	7,802
Time zone	Central Standard Time (UTC-6)
– Summer (DST)	Central Daylight Time (UTC-5)
INEGI Code	057
Major Airport	Merida (Manuel Crescencio Rejón) International Airport
IATA Code	MID
ICAO Code	MMMD
Website	Official Site

Panabá is one of 106 municipalities in the state of Yucatán, Mexico.It is located in the eastern region of the Yucatán Peninsula's northern coast. Panabá is also the name of the municipality's largest township that is its municipal seat (cabecera municipal). The municipality is bounded to the north by the municipalities of San Felipe and Rio Lagartos, to the east by Tizimín, to the south by Sucilá and to the west by the municipalities of Dzilam de Bravo and Dzilam González.

The modern Spanish spelling Panabá derives from the place name in the Yucatec Maya language, Panab' ha, meaning "[place of] water found by digging". The Maya name combines the verb panab’ "to dig, to excavate" (verbal root pan-) with the noun for "water", ha’.

Foundation

Throughout the colonial period the Panabá was under the jurisdiction of Valladolid through Tizimín. As a result of changes in the peninsula during the nineteenth century. Panabá was part of the municipality of Tizimín until 1918.

Pre-Columbian ruins have been discovered on a site in the village of Panabá shows that this place was inhabited during the pre-Hispanic times by Indians in the province of Domes.

Historical Monuments

Architectural The beautiful temple of San Pedro is located at the headwaters ^[1]

Ethnic Groups

The population of speakers (5 years and over) of the indigenous language (Yucatec Maya)in the municipality is 2,465 people.

Demographic Trends

According to the XII General Census of Population and Housing 2000 by the INEGI, the total population of the municipality was 7,802 people, of whom 3,984 are male and 3,984 are female. The total population of the town represents 0.47 per cent of the total population of the state.

Education, Health and Housing

The town has 4 levels of schools, preschool, primary, secondary and high school, there is a library located in the following cabecera. A campaigns literacy at the National Institute for Adult Education (INEA), has succeeded in reducing illiteracy of the population in the municipality. In 1980, there were 663 people counted as illiterate and by 1986 this number was reduced to 136.

There is one medical unit of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) in addition to private assistance. Typical housing in the region is constructed from bajareques and mud, roofed Huan, but most are built with block cement, wood s and film =s.

Traditions and Customs

Custom women use simple huipiles, highlighting the embroidered square neck and cutting edge clothing, this is placed on the stem] which is half curly fund subject to the waist with a girdle of the same fabric, fit sandal s, and sun protection are filled with rebozo. Farmers, especially the elderly, dressed in baggy trousers blanket raw shirt buttoned to the front apron Cotia and hat straw.

For dairy s and women's main festivals are decorated with the Terno, made with fine material s, fit s and usually hand-made embroidery in cross stitch. This is complemented by long chains of gold arete s, string of coral or watermark and rebozo of Santa Maria.

The men wear white pants cut straight, thin fabric of the Philippines (the rich have been in the garment buttoning gold), espadrille s and hats Jipijapa, without missing the traditional red scarf popularly known as bandana essential to the dance Maker

For All Saints and faithful departed is customary to place a altar in place of the main house, which provides the late s the food that they liked the traditional Mucbil chicken accompanied by atole of corn again and chocolate beaten with water. In the parties of the regional people dancing jaranas making skills among participants.

Food

The cuisine of the region are preparing to mass maize, meat s of pork and chicken and deer, with sauces spice s of habanero chile and max. Some are: beans with pork, egg Chaya pot chicken, cheese filling, salbutes panucho s, pipi deer, papadzules sausage cochinita pibil joroches, mucbi-chicken, and PIMES tamales. In the typical sweets are cassava Honey, pumpkin melada, potato with coconut cocoyol in syrup, marzipan pip pumpkin, Melcocha arepas, tejocotes in sweet syrup and ciricote. Drink features are Xtabentún Balch, drink anise, Pozole with coco horchata, corn atole new fruit drinks in the region.

Settlements

The municipality contains some 135 officially named localities (localidades), among which the most populous settlements are

• Panabá (Municipal Seat).
• Loche
• Cenote Yalsihon Buena Fe
• San Francisco.
• San Juan del Rio.

Regionalization Policy

The municipality belongs to the First Federal Electoral District Tenth District and Local Elections.

References

1. ^ http://www.jaguarstemple.com/category/san-pedro-central-america

External links

• Official Site of the State of Yucatán
• municipality Panabá