Maní (Yucatán)

Maní
Coordinates: 20 ° 23 ′ N , 89 ° 24 ′ W Maní on the map of Mexico	Maní
	Maní
Basic data
Country	Mexico
State	Yucatan
Municipio	Maní
Residents	4146 (2010)
Detailed data
height	26 m
Post Code	97850
prefix	(+52) 997
Time zone	UTC −6
	Franciscan monastery

Maní is a village of about 4,000 people in the state of Yucatán in Mexico . Maní is the administrative seat of the Municipio Maní .

location

Maní is located in the center of the Yucatán peninsula, a good 90 kilometers (driving distance) southeast of the capital Mérida and 16 kilometers east of Ticul at an altitude of about 26 meters above sea level. d. M.

economy

In the area around Maní mainly sisal and maize as well as vegetables and fruits are grown; livestock is also farmed. Hammocks ( hamacas ) are made in the village itself .

history

Maní has been continuously inhabited for the past 4000 years. During the post-classical period , Maní was the seat of the Maya dynasty Tutul Xiu . Since the fall of Mayapán (1441), which they initiated, the Xiu had been the most powerful family among the Mayan princes and ruled over one of the largest jurisdictions in the Yucatán. This made Maní one of the most important cities in the Yucatán; as early as the 16th century, around 4,500 people lived there. In Maní there was also a religious center in honor of the deity Kukulcan , where, among other things, the fall of Mayapan was celebrated annually.

After the arrival of the Spaniards, Xiu von Maní allied himself with them in 1542 and helped them to conquer the Yucatán.

On July 12, 1562, at the instigation of the then Provincial of the Franciscan Order of Yucatán, Diego de Landa , who also exercised the office of Inquisitor , a car dairy took place in front of the San Miguel Arcángel Monastery , in which all the Mayan codes and symbols of gods were burned one could get hold of. This was done on the grounds that they only contained "lies from the devil". As a result of these and subsequent actions, only four codices of the extensive Mayan literature have survived .

Attractions

In the center of the village is the former Franciscan monastery of San Miguel Arcángel , which was founded in 1549. It was built with stones from pre-Columbian Mayan buildings and has a capilla abierta on the north side of the church facade, which is elevated by two side bell gables ( espadañas ). The single nave interior of the church houses three baroque carved altars with figures of saints and pictures; the vault of the apse is decorated with frescoes from the late colonial period.
Surroundings
The municipality of Maní also includes the village of Tipikal, only about eight kilometers to the northeast, with a beautiful colonial church from 1751.