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We close this year's posts on Yucatán with a look at its colonial water sources: Although there is little surface water in Yucatán, alm...

Mopilá, view of open chapel Founded atop an ancient Maya platform, this former visita of Yaxcabá evolved in the usual Yucatecan fashion: at...

We continue our posts on lesser known missions in Yucatán with a look at Teyá,  (" Sapodilla " )  near Izamal. In a classic Yu...

Like dozens of other rural churches across Yucatán, San Gaspar Timucuy (Place of the Doves) started life in the later 1500s as a thatched...

The 17th century church at Teabo stands on an elevated foundation within a walled atrium. As at nearby Oxkutzcab, on which it is undoubte...

In our books, web pages and blog posts on Yucatán we have mentioned a few of the numerous and varied haciendas of the peninsula and their  c...

Until recent times accommodations for travelers in Yucatán were few and far between. Early visitors relied on the hospitality of the large ...