Yucatec Maya people

The Yucatec Mayas or Peninsular Mayans are Maya people who live in the Yucatan Peninsula in the Mexican states of Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo and in the Districts of Corozal and Orange Walk in Belize. The vast majority of them speak the Yucatec Maya language, or maayat'aan (autoglottonym).

Yucatec Mayas

Flag of the Yucatec Maya people
Yucatec Mayas doing a ritual to request rain
Total population
1,646,782 (2020)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Mexico (Yucatán, Campeche and Quintana Roo)
Languages
Yucatec Maya and Spanish
Religion
Christianity (predominantly Roman Catholic and Pentecostal), and traditional religion
Related ethnic groups
Tzeltal · Tzotzil · Other Maya peoples

History

The Temple of Kukulcán in Chichén Itzá.

The preclassical period spanned from 2000 BC. C. to 250 AD. C.. During this time the early Mayan civilization gave rise.

In the classic period (250-900) there was a lot of construction, urban planning, development of art and Mayan thought.

During the postclassic period (950-1539) the Mayan civilization began to collapse and several cities were abandoned.

Of 1847 to 1901 the War of Castes became in the Yucatan Peninsula. In her, the majority of the natives of the centre-south of the then #be of Yucatán (which spanned all the peninsula) infuriated against of the "targets" of the region because of the oppression that suffered. Cecilio Chi, Jacinto Pat and Manuel Antonio Ay were the three main leaders of this war during his first stage. It finishes with the entrance of the federal army Mexican to Chan Santa Cruz in 1901.^[2]

The typical women's costume consists of a suit made up of the huipil decorated with flowers on the neck, the doublet, which goes on top of the hipil, and the fustian, which goes to the bottom. The terno is only used during important celebrations and it is the hipil that is used every day. The typical men's costume consists of a white guayabera, white pants, a hippie hat and a red bandanna.

The best known tradition is that of the Janal Pixan (lunch of the ánimas), in which they plant altars of rendados to the dead persons.

Also it splits of the men till the milpa (kool, in maya).

Demographics

Currently there are 1,646,782 Yucatec Mayans in Mexican territory. The Mexican state, which has the largest population belonging to this ethnic group, is Yucatán.^[3]

The majority of people belonging to this ethnic group speak the Yucatec Maya language, which has 795,499 speakers in Mexico.

See also

• Maya civilization
• Chichen Itza
• Indigenous peoples of Mexico