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Tahmek
Municipal seat of Tahmek, State of Yucatán, Mexico
Locality of Mexico, Tahmek Municipality
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Tahmek is a locality in the state of Yucatán, Mexico, and the seat of the municipality of the same name, located approximately 40 kilometers east of the city of Mérida, the state capital, and 20 km southwest of the city of Izamal. The name of the municipality, Tahmek, means in the Mayan language strong embrace, from the words t'a'aj, strong, and méek', embrace. Joined together, the words mean strong embrace.
Text: Spanish Wikipedia, machine translation, CC BY-SA 4.0. · Image: Dennis G. Jarvis (CC BY-SA 2.0) ·