Espita

Espita is a town in Espita Municipality, Yucatan positioned at the Litoral Oriente or Region I of Yucatan. It has an average peak of 27 meters and is placed at a distance of a hundred sixty five km from the Merida City, 80 km from Izamal, fifty eight km from Chichen Itza, forty nine km from Valladolid, 35 km from Ek' Balam and 27 km from Tizimin. During pre-Hispanic instances, the website online where the metropolis stands today changed into a part of the province of the cupules, wherein later, with the arrival of the Spanish, turned into founded the prevailing city and installed the encomienda gadget in 1549. Since colonization large homes were constructed, amongst which stands the church committed to St. Joseph.

In the 19th century, the city housed a number of the maximum essential maize haciendas inside the country, because of its booming economic system and the impulse to subculture, Espita changed into taken into consideration as one of the cultural facilities of the Yucatan, and he became recognised by the nickname of "The Athens of Yucatan". Towards the second one half of of the twentieth century, the city skilled a decline in its improvement due in huge element to the closure of the haciendas and the consequent decline of its financial system. Today is the fourth maximum populous metropolis in the japanese of Yucatan, handiest after Valladolid, Tizimin and Chemax.