Punto put

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Punto Put is the intersection of the borders between the Mexican states of Yucatán , Campeche and Quintana Roo .

The point was initially set between the Yucatán and Campeche in an area completely deserted after the Mexican Caste War on the site of a then probably no longer populated ranch, which was mentioned in the then much-read travel description of the New York lawyer John Lloyd Stephens and that of the Maya -Name "Put". According to the order of the Mexican President Porfirio Díaz , the point was only determined by a commission in 1922 as "200 metros al oeste de Put" (200 meters west of Put) and its coordinates were defined by astronomical measurements.

In a border dispute that lasted for years between the modern states of Quintana Roo and Campeche, the point was revisited a few years ago. A bricked border point was actually found near a small church ruin and determined using satellite navigation, whereby the current location does not differ more than exactly 300 meters from that of 1922 - remarkable given the limited possibilities at the time.

Nevertheless, a border dispute that was brought to the Supreme Court in 1988 continues. The background is not a possibly disputed exact location of the point, but that a good part of the settlements, which were essential for the establishment of the State of Campeche, lies east of the line defined by Put. However, these settlements are a constituent part of Campeche because Campeche only achieved the minimum number of inhabitants for the proclamation of its own state through a - generous - assessment of their population. To include these settlements, maps from the late 19th century also draw the border further east, roughly where Campeche defines its eastern border, which can also be found on official maps from the 1960s to 1990s. This point is known as the "Nuevo Punto Put" ( 19 ° 39 ′ 7 ″  N , 89 ° 24 ′ 52 ″  W ). The increased expansion of settlements and agricultural areas into the disputed regions since the mid-1980s suggests that the development through roads, power supply, health care, schools creates facts that the legal situation will have to follow.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ John L. Stephens: Incidents of travel in Yucatan . Dover Publications, New York 1963, ISBN 0-486-20926-1
  2. ↑ Rafael Acosta Solís: Pronto fallaría la Corte: La controversia de límites entre Yucatán, Campeche y Quintana Roo ( Memento of August 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 19 ° 18 ′ 27 ″  N , 89 ° 8 ′ 52 ″  W.