Maxcanú

Maxcanú lies in western Yucatán, in the region once governed by the Maya lordship of Ah Canul. Nearby Chunchucmil had been a major Classic-period city, notable for dense settlement and evidence of a large marketplace. Its merchants linked the Gulf coast with the interior and distant highland regions. After Mayapán’s fall, the Canul lineage established its authority in the western peninsula; Spanish conquest later brought the region under colonial rule.