Cansahcab (municipality)

Cansahcab (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “Place of the four white caves”) is a small (146.90 km²)cite web | title = Nuestros municipios - Cansahcab | url = http://www.yucatan.gob.mx/estado/municipios/31009a.htm# | format = HTML | accessdate = 2007-10-26 ] municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatan located roughly 50km southeast of the Merida. The population of Cansahcab is between 4500 and 5000, with much of its adult male population working in the United States. Economic activity in Cansahcab is quite minimal; the town subsists largely on remittances sent by family members working abroad.Fact|date=October 2007

Every year from September 14 – 16th Cansahcab holds an annual fair or “fiesta del pueblo” during which an impromptu bullfighting ring is set up to host much of the festivities which include a charreria, bullfighting and folkloric dancing.

Notables

Notable locals include General Teodosio Canto who was governor of the state of Yucatan from 1882-1886.

References

External links

* [http://carlosrosado.blogspot.com/2007/09/independence-day-fried-bull-entrails.html Link to short article and set of photos taken in Cansahcab]