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    The Mérida Cathedral in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico, is one of the oldest cathedrals in the Americas. Construction of the cathedral of Mérida began in 1561...
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    Mérida (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmeɾiða] ) is the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, and the largest city in southeastern Mexico. The city is also...
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    important city of the Yucatán Peninsula, (after Mérida and Campeche). It had a sizable well-to-do Criollo population, with a number of old Spanish style...
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    of Mérida, the state capital. By law when the Yucatán was part of New Spain, all commerce went through the port of Campeche. The residents of Mérida petititioned...
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  • Juan Miguel de Agüero (category Year of birth unknown)
    in the design and construction of the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral, the Mérida Cathedral, and the fortifications of Havana, Cuba. Juan Miguel de Agüero...
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    Cantón, Raúl (ed.). Yucatán en el tiempo: F-L. Yucatán en el tiempo: Enciclopedia alfabética (in Spanish). Vol. 3 (1st ed.). Mérida, Yucatán, México: Inversiones...
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  • timeline of the history of the city of Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. 66 million years ago - The ground beneath Mérida forms part of the impact crater of the meteorite...
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    (1526) became the center of Spanish settlement in Oaxaca; Santiago de Guatemala was founded in 1524; and in Yucatán, Mérida (1542) was founded inland...
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    Mérida de Yucatán de las Indias: piratería y estrategia defensiva (in Spanish). Departamento de Comunicación Social del H. Ayuntamiento de Mérida. ISBN 9789686918045...
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    Renaissance architecture in New Spain is the Cathedral of Mérida, Yucatán, one of the oldest cathedrals in the Americas, built between 1562 and 1598 and...
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    or Kingdom of Yucatán, was a first order administrative subdivision of the Viceroyalty of New Spain in the Yucatán Peninsula. The Yucatán Peninsula is...
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    prime example being the Mérida Cathedral in Yucatán, built in the Renaissance architectural style and one of the oldest cathedrals in the New World. The...
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    Estado de Yucatán (2007). "Municipios de Yucatán: Tinum" (in Spanish). Mérida, Yucatán: Gobierno del Estado de Yucatán. Archived from the original on 3 January...
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    Eligio Ancona (category People from Mérida, Yucatán)
    journalist, and Mexican politician who was born in Mérida, Yucatán. He was named “benemérito” of the state of Yucatán, a title given to distinguished people who...
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    Archdiocese of Yucatán (Latin: Archidioecesis Yucatanensis) is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church based in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. The diocese of Campeche...
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  • Juan de la Cámara (category Mexican people of Spanish descent)
    Conquest of Yucatán. Born into the noble de la Cámara family, he arrived in the New World in 1539 and played a key role in founding Mérida, the second...
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    Campeche (redirect from Economy of Campeche)
    was part of the province of Yucatán but split off in the mid-19th century, mostly due to political friction with the city of Mérida. Much of the state's...
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    of these is the Count of Suchil Palace. Guanajuato, Guanajuato. A major city of colonial Mexico's silver mining, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mérida...
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    of these images, such as the ones in Chalma, State of Mexico and Mérida, Yucatán have origin stories that do not connect the local image with that of...
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    María Cámara Vales (category People from Mérida, Yucatán)
    awarded with the accolade. María Casimira was born on March 4, 1877, in Mérida, Yucatán. She was the second child among fourteen siblings born to Raymundo...
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    Habich F (2018). Yucatán 1517: El segundo descubrimiento de América (Hernández de Córdoba). Viajeros; Colección sextante. Vol. 6. Mérida: Universidad Nacional...
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    Raymundo Cámara Luján (category People from Mérida, Yucatán)
    arrived in Yucatán in 1539 alongside Francisco de Montejo, participating in the Spanish conquest of Yucatán. Since their arrival on the Yucatán Peninsula...
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    Pedro Sáinz de Baranda y Borreiro (category People from Mérida, Yucatán)
    to the Rotunda of the Illustrious Persons. Menéndez, Carlos R. (1937). Noventa años de historia de Yucatán (1821–1910). Mérida, Yucatán, México: Compañía...
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    Mega Elektra Cantarell Merida commercial building, Mérida, Yucatán Teatro Armando Manzanero (formerly Cine Mérida), Mérida, Yucatán Abelardo L. Rodríguez...
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    Fermín Emilio Sosa Rodríguez (category People from Yucatán)
    seminary of the Archdiocese of Yucatán in Mérida in 1991 and was ordained a deacon on 29 April 1998. He was ordained a priest of the archdiocese of Yucatán on...
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    municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (192.89 km2) of land and located roughly 50 km southeast of the city of Mérida. After the conquest, during...
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  • Loltun Cave (category Landforms of Yucatán)
    Loltun Cave is a cave in the Yucatán, approximately 7 km (4.3 mi) south of Oxkutzcab. The cave contains paintings attributed to the Maya civilization...
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    Antonio Caballero y Góngora (category Viceroys of New Granada)
    was named bishop of Mérida in Yucatán in 1775, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México). Sailing to Cuba in the spring of 1776 for his consecration...
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    1835 in Mexico (category Years of the 19th century in Mexico)
    novelist and revolutionary politic, is born in Mérida, Yucatán. September 9 – José Figueroa, Governor of Alta California (born 1792) Pedro Patiño Ixtolinque...
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    Spanish). Mérida, Mexico: Diario de Yucatán. 12 July 2012. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 8 May 2015. "Municipios de Yucatán » Chapab"...
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