I paatun

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Ichpaatun , also Ichpatun , is a Maya site on the Mexican peninsula of Yucatán in the state of Quintana Roo .

The place is located approx. 15 km north of Chactemal in the Bay of Chetumal and thus belongs to a whole series of centers on the densely populated Caribbean coast of the Yucatán. Many of these coastal centers such as El Meco , San Gervasio , Zama and Santa Rita , including Ichpaatun, were created in key geographic positions. Ichpaatun was also surrounded by a defensive wall, as usual only Ich Paa and Zama.

Pachimalahix, the ruler of the Acalán Maya , is said to have waged a war against the Cuchcabal Chetumal at the end of the 15th century . As a result, there was an immigration of Chontal Maya who colonized or dominated the localities there. Ichpaatun was also the base of Gonzalo Guerrero , who rose from a slave to the son-in-law of the local Halach Uinik , Nachan Can , who was first a Nacom and finally became a Kazike himself , and as such offered bitter resistance against the conquest . The Chetumal region was not subjugated until the late 16th century. Ichpaatun is only mentioned once in a list of settlements in 1582 as Mayapán in the early colonial period (probably because of the city wall that was also there). However, near the place there is a ruined church La Iglesia of the early Ramada type. The settlement was probably abandoned in the 16th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolai Grube (ed.): Maya, Gottkönige im Regenwald. Potsdam 2012, ISBN 978-3-8480-0033-3 , pp. 346, 348.
  2. ↑ Mi nombre es Gonzalo Guerrero. ( spanish )
  3. ↑ Ralph L. Roys : The Political Geography of the Yucatan Maya. Washington 1957, p. 162.

Coordinates: 18 ° 35 ′ 12.1 ″  N , 88 ° 13 ′ 55.7 ″  W.