Màayapáan

The league held until 1441, when a lord of the Xiu family, resentful of the Cocom rulers' scheming, led a revolt against them. Every Cocom was killed except one who was away trading in Honduras, and Mayapan was sacked, burned and abandoned, leaving charred roof beams in the ruins of its central buildings. With it went the unity of the peninsula, which broke into rival provinces.

The feud outlived the city. The Xiu, who claimed descent from the lords of Uxmal, ruled the west from Maní, while the surviving Cocom founded the province of Sotuta and fought them until the Spanish came. Then the Xiu chose the newcomers, allied with them and helped them conquer the rest of Yucatán, and it was at Maní in 1562 that Friar Diego de Landa burned the Maya's hieroglyphic books.