Tekom Municipality

Tekom
Municipality
Tekom Location of Tekom in Mexico
Coordinates: 20°28′0″N 88°15′0″W
Country	Mexico
State	Yucatán
Mexico Ind.	1821
Yucatán Est.	1824
Municipality Est.	1921
Government
• Type	PRI 2007–2010
• Municipal President	William Edilberto Can Tec [1]
Area
• Total	201.83 km^2 (77.93 sq mi)
Population  (2005 [2][3])
• Total	2,933
• Density	15/km^2 (38/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (Central Daylight Time)
INEGI Code	081
Major Airport	Merida (Manuel Crescencio Rejón) International Airport
IATA Code	MID
ICAO Code	MMMD
Municipalities of Yucatán

Tekom Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán. Tekom is also the name of the municipality's largest settlement and seat of the municipal government (cabecera municipal). In the XII national census (Censo General de Población y Vivienda) conducted by INEGI in 2000, Tekom municipality recorded a population of 2,660 inhabitants. In the intermediate census count undertaken by INEGI in 2005 (the II Conteo de Población y Vivienda), the total municipal population was recorded as 2,933 inhabitants,[4] 2,413 of whom[5] spoke one of the recognised indigenous languages of Mexico (Yucatec Maya).[6]

The municipality is located in the southeastern portion of the state in the north-central Yucatán Peninsula, and covers a total area of some 201.83 square kilometres (77.93 sq mi). The terrain is a virtually flat plain, with a median elevation of 27 metres (89 ft) above mean sea level.[7] As with most of the Yucatán Peninsula there are no surface rivers or creeks, but there are subterranean water-filled sinkholes (cenotes) some of which are naturally exposed at the surface. Average annual rainfall, which is regular in the summer months, amounts to approximately 82 millimetres (3 in). The climate is classed as subhumid.[7]

Tekom was created as a municipio libre of Yucatán state on 1 January 1920. In 1957 the southern half of Tekom's territory was partitioned off to form a new municipality, Chikindzonot.[7]

References

1. "Nuestros municipios – Tekom". Archived from the original on 10 April 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2009.
2. "Encyclopedia of the Municipalities of Mexico: Yucatan". Archived from the original on 20 November 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
3. Census Results by Locality, 2005 Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine INEGI.
4. INAFED (2005); INEGI (2006, pp.60–61)
5. Aged five years or older
6. INEGI (2006, pp.60–61)
7. INAFED (2005)

Further reading

• CEDEMUN (1988). Los municipios de Yucatán. Colección Enciclopedia de los municipios de México, vol. 30 (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Centro Nacional de Desarrollo Municipal [CEDEMUN], Secretaría de Gobernación [SEGOB], and Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. OCLC 23698319.
• INAFED (2005). "Tekom" (updated online edition of Enciclopedia de los municipios de México [1987–88] at E-Local). Enciclopedia de los municipios de México: Estado de Yucatán (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal [INAFED], Secretaría de Gobernación [SEGOB], Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
• INALI [Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas] (14 January 2008). "Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas nacionales: Variantes lingüísticas de México con sus autodenominaciones y referencias geoestadísticas" (PDF). Diario Oficial de la Federación (in Spanish). 652 (9). México, D.F.: Imprenta del Gobierno Federal, Secretaría de Gobernación [SEGOB]: 22–78 (first section), 1–96 (second section), 1–112 (third section). OCLC 46461036.
• INEGI (2006). "Yucatán: Población de 5 años y más por municipio, sexo y grupos quinquenales de edad según condición de habla indígena y habla española" (PDF). II Conteo de Población y Vivienda 2005. Resultados definitivos. Tabulados básicos por entidad federativa (in Spanish). México, D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática [INEGI]. Retrieved 4 August 2009.

External links

• H. Ayuntamiento de Tekom, website of Tekom's municipal government (in Spanish)