Can Pech

Kuchkabal Kaan Peech
1441–1540
Kuchkabals of Yucatan after 1461; Can Pech is center left.
Kuchkabals of Yucatan after 1461; Can Pech is center left.
CapitalCampeche, Campeche
Common languagesOfficial language:
Yucatec
Religion
Maya religion
GovernmentMonarchy
Halach Uinik 
Historical erapost classic period / Early Modern
• Established
1441
• Disestablished
1540
Preceded by
Succeeded by
League of Mayapan
New Spain

Can Pech (also Cun Pech, Kaan Pech, or Kaan Peech) was the name of a Maya chiefdom of the southwestern Yucatán Peninsula, before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. Can Pech was south of Ah Canul and north of Chakán Putum, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.[1] In 1517, the population of its capital city was approximately 36,000, judging by the description of the city by Bernal Díaz del Castillo.

  1. ^ Roys, Ralph Loveland (1957). The political geography of the Yucatan Maya. Carnegie Institution of Washington. p. 52. Retrieved 5 July 2012.