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Mérida
The cultural capital of the Yucatán with grand colonial mansions along Paseo de Montejo, vibrant markets, and gateway to Maya ruins.
5 km · about 10 min drive
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Kanasín
Yucatán, Mexico · North America
About Kanasín
Kanasín is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Leona Vicario, 26km from Cenotes of the Yucatán.
Kanasín is in Yucatán, Mexico, with about 77,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Leona Vicario, about 5 km away.
Kanasín (In the Yucatec Maya language: "tense or strongly tightened") is a city in the Mexican state of Yucatán and the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. It is located in the northwestern region of the state, forming part of the Mérida metropolitan area. According to the 2020 census carried out byRead more
the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), it had a population of 139,753, making it the second largest Yucatecan city after Mérida, the 8th most populous in southeastern Mexico and the 101st most populous in the country.
In pre-Columbian times, the space that the city currently occupies was located in the ancient Mayan chiefdom of Chakan. Kanasín was established around the mid-16th century under the encomienda tributary system following the Spanish conquest of Yucatán. The name of the city derives precisely from a Mayan language term used to name a plant with reddish flowers that grows in the area. In 2007, it officially received city status. At the end of 2021, it hosted the First Ibero-American Meeting of Poetry. Today, it is a significant development pole as an industrial corridor for the state, together with the nearby city of Umán, which is also a suburb of Mérida.
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Within an hour or so of Kanasín: Mérida (5 km), Cenotes of the Yucatán (26 km), Izamal (56 km).
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Kanasín is in Yucatán, Mexico, about 5 km from Leona Vicario.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 77,240
- Continent
- North America
- Country
- Mexico
- Region
- Yucatán
- Timezone
- America/Merida
- Coordinates
- 20.9349, -89.5582
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Green Angels (free tourist roadside assistance on federal highways): 078.
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Worth the detour from Kanasín
3 notable places within an hour's drive.
natural wonder
Cenotes of the Yucatán
A vast network of thousands of sacred limestone sinkholes connected by underground rivers, revered by the ancient Maya.
26 km · about 30 min drive
photogenic
Izamal
The "Yellow City": nearly every building painted egg-yolk ochre, built around the vast Franciscan monastery of San Antonio de Padua, whose atrium is second in size only to the Vatican's and which sits atop a Maya pyramid.
56 km · about 65 min drive
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Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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