Ticul

Ticul is a town and the municipal seat of the Ticul Municipality, Yucatán in Mexico. It is positioned some 100 km south of the country capital city of Merida. In 2000 Ticul had a populace of about 28,000 people. The majority are ethnically Maya. Ticul became a metropolis of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It has been continuously occupied given that as a minimum the seventh century BC. After the Spanish conquest of Yucatán Ticul was reestablished as a Spanish colonial metropolis in 1549. The Republic of Yucatan granted Ticul the popularity of a metropolis in 1847.

The metropolis is nicknamed La Perla del Sur the Pearl of the South, as it is inside the southern part of Yucatan State. Ticul has long been recognized for the purple pottery produced there. Over half of the populace still speaks the Maya language as their first tongue, even though Spanish is likewise understood. The red meat dish chuc is a widely recognized local forte. The city of Ticul changed into additionally a town of the Pre Columbian Maya civilization. Ticul became installed as a Spanish colonial metropolis through 1549.