Tixchel

Tixchel was a Maya settlement on the coast near the Laguna de Términos, where waterways linked the Gulf shore to the inland province of Acalan. Merchants and canoe travellers moved through a landscape of lagoons, rivers and wetlands. In the sixteenth century Spanish conquerors and missionaries entered the region, and Indigenous people from Acalan were brought to Tixchel as colonial authorities reorganized the population.