Chumayel

Chumayel Municipality is one of the 106 municipalities in the Mexican kingdom of Yucatan containing of land and is located more or less eighty km southeast of the city of Merida. There is not any correct facts on whilst the town changed into founded, even though it existed earlier than the conquest. At colonization, Chumayel have become a part of the encomienda gadget. The city's historic records is crucial; one of the few remaining Mayan documents, the Codices of the Chilam Balam of Chumayel, originated right here.

Yucatan d its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821, and in 1825 the region changed into assigned to the lower mountainous partition of Mama Municipality. In 1867 it changed into moved to the Tekax Municipality and in 1935 it became exact as its own municipality. The municipal president is elected for a 3-yr term. The town council has four councilpersons, who function Secretary and councilors of public safety, public lighting and nomenclature.