- Tekax
Tekax, sometimes spelled Tecax (in full, Tekax de Álvaro Obregón), is a small
city in theMexican state ofYucatán , located at coord|20|12|07|N|89|17|17|W|type:city in the southernmost part of the state. Tekax (pronounced|teˈkɑʃ) means "Place of the Forests" in theYucatec Maya language . Tekax was briefly declared the capital of Yucatán in1845 . Tekax is also the name of the surrounding municipality of which the city of Tekax serves as municipal seat of government.In the census of
2005 Tekax had a population of 23,524. 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, afterTizimín . The majority of the population are Maya.References
* [http://www.inegi.gob.mx/est/contenidos/espanol/sistemas/conteo2005/localidad/iter/ Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005] INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
* [http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/EMM_yucatan Yucatán] Enciclopedia de los Municipios de MéxicoExternal links
* [http://www.yucatantoday.com/destinations/eng-tekax.htm Tekax on Yucatan Today]
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