Ekab

Ekab was a Maya jurisdiction at the northeastern end of the Yucatán peninsula, facing the Caribbean and the islands offshore. Its coastal settlements participated in a network of canoe routes and exchange extending along the peninsula. Islanders and mainland communities gathered salt and traded through ports such as those near Isla Mujeres. Spanish expeditions reached the coast in the early sixteenth century, and Francisco de Montejo began an attempted conquest of Yucatán in 1527.

The later city of Cancún lies here.