The Municipality of Hunucmá is one of the 106 subdivisions

Municipalities of Yucatán

The Mexican state of Yucatán is made up of 106 municipios , organized into 9 administrative regions. Most of the names of the municipalities come from the Yucatec Maya language, which is still spoken by more of 30% of the population, according to INEGI ....

 of the State of Yucatán

Yucatán

Yucatán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 106 municipalities and its capital city is Mérida....

 in Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

. Its municipal seat is the City of Hunucmá.

Location

The municipality is located in the metropolitan region of the State of Yucatán

Yucatán

Yucatán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 106 municipalities and its capital city is Mérida....

. It lies between latitudes 20º 55' and 21º 14' north and the longitudes 89º 48' and 90º 12' west.

It borders the following municipalities: the north by the Gulf of Mexico, south to Samahil and Tetiz, east to Progress and Ucu and west Celestun.

Communities

The municipality is made up of 13 different communities, of which the most important are:

• Hunucmá (municipal seat).
• Texan de Palomeque.
• Sisal
  Sisal, Yucatán
  Sisal is a seaport town in the municipality of Hunucmá in the state of Yucatán, Mexico. It was the principal port of Yucatán during the henequen boom, later overshadowed when the more modern port of Progreso was built to the east. It lent its name to the agave-derived sisal fiber which was shipped...
  
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• Hunkanab.
• San Antonio Chel.

Architectural Landmarks

These include a temple in honor of Santiago Apostle, built in the seventeenth century, a chapel dedicated to San Antonio, which do not have exact known years of construction, but they do date back to colonial times. A former convent and church of San Francisco built in the sixteenth century, the Guadalupe chapel dating from the eighteenth century as well as ex-haciendas of Santa Elena, San Joaquin and Chencopo.

Notables

Notable locals include:
Jose Leon Bojorquez
Musician, composer and director of the Folk Orchestra of the State and Tipica de Yucalpetén.

Alberto Bojórquez Pérez Perez Alberto Bojorquez
Promoting tourism and the peninsula.