Uaymil

Uaymil, also called Bakhalal, was a Maya province around Bacalar Lagoon in the marshy Caribbean lowlands of what is now southern Quintana Roo. Its lakeside town was a canoe port linked to traders from Sian Ka’an and Chetumal Bay.

It was among the Maya provinces that took shape after the wars which destroyed Mayapan in 1441–1461. In 1531 Alonso de Ávila crossed it from Cochuah on Francisco de Montejo’s behalf. The southern districts held out until the Pacheco entrada brought the coast from Bacalar to Chetumal into Spanish Yucatán in 1544.