Conkal Municipality, Mexico

Mexico

Conkal Municipality, Mexico appears in 5 Bunkabop connections with 242 other places across 2 topics, almost entirely through colonial history. The municipality predates Spanish arrival, once belonging to the chieftainship of Ceh Pech. After conquest, it became part of the encomienda holdings of Francisco de Montejo the Younger. In the colonial period, the Franciscan Order established one of its early Yucatán convents here. The Caste War of Yucatán in the mid-1840s drew the region into broader conflict between indigenous inhabitants and Spanish descendants.