Ticul
Sign in to saveTicul is a city in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name and is located some 100 km south of the state capital, Mérida. In 2000 Ticul had a population of about 28,000 people. The majority are ethnically Maya.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ticul
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipal seat
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:2002.12.30_07_Plaza_ayuntamiento_Ticul_Yucatan_Mexico.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Ticul main square and city hall
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mexico Yucatán
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mexico
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Yucatán
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ticul
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 32796
- Settlement.blank_name
- Climate
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Ticul
- Country
- Mexico
- Located in
- Ticul
- Population
- 32796
- Elevation
- 20
- Time zone
- UTC−06:00
- Capital of
- Ticul
- Official website
- www.ticul.gob.mx
- Image
- Ticul Yucatan Church 2002.12.30 05.jpg
- Dialing code
- 997
- Licence plate code
- 31
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- Commons category
- Ticul
- postal code
- 97860–97864
- native label
- Ticul
- time of earliest written record
- 1549-00-00
- P12749
- 1510
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Ticul is a city in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding municipality of the same name and is located some 100 km south of the state capital, Mérida. In 2000 Ticul had a population of about 28,000 people. The majority are ethnically Maya.
Ticul was a town of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. It has been continuously occupied since at least the 7th century BC. After the Spanish conquest of Yucatán Ticul was reestablished as a Spanish colonial town in 1549. The Republic of Yucatán granted Ticul the status of a city in 1847.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ticul” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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