Municipality of Telchac Pueblo

The Municipality of Telchac Pueblo is a small town of farmers and merchants, located to the north of the Yucatán Peninsula, is one of the 106 municipalities of the Mexican state of Yucatán. The name of municipality comes from the Maya language and officially translated into Spanish means "Rain or necessary water", as the result of the words Tel, contraction of teel, indispensable or necessary and chac, contraction of chaac, rain or water. Erroneously it is said that meaning is "Red Rooster" (Tel means rooster and Chac means red). The denomination "Pueblo" (English: Town), is used to differentiate it from the nearby town called Telchac Puerto (English: Port of Telchac). Both were once a single municipality, but in 1932, for political...