Izamal

Izamal is a small city inside the Mexican nation of Yucatan, seventy two km east of nation capital Merida, in southern Mexico. Izamal became continuously occupied at some point of maximum of Mesoamerican chronology; in 2000, the metropolis's expected population become 15,000 humans. Izamal is understood in Yucatan as the Yellow City and the City of Hills. The city of Izamal turned into first granted the reputation of city via the government of Yucatan on 4 December 1841. On 13 August 1923 it was demoted to metropolis repute. It turned into once more officially ranked as a metropolis on 1 December 1981.

In 1975 the reputable in rate of land redistribution changed into again and again accused of political corruption; letters of grievance were sent from residents of Izamal to Merida and Mexico City without a reaction. The professional became found stoned to loss of life below a big pile of rocks inside the city's major square. A Mexican Army unit occupied the metropolis for a few days after the incident, however investigators did not locate everybody in town who knew anything about what passed off. Pope John Paul II visited Izamal in August 1993, in which he finished a mass and presented the statue of the Virgin with a silver crown.