Tekax
Tekax is a small town in the southern part of Yucatán. It is a Mayan community in an area of dense tropical jungle. Travelers will enjoy the colonial historic town center, an abundance of biodiversity, caving, hiking and exploring 1,000 year old Mayan archaeological sites.
- Type: Town with 28,500 residents
- Description: municipal seat of Tekax, State of Yucatán, Mexico
- Also known as: “Ciudad Obregón” and “Obregon”
Tekax
- Categories: locality of Mexico and locality
- Location: Tekax, Yucatán, Yucatán and the South, Mexico, North America
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Latitude
20.2052° or 20° 12′ 19″ north
Longitude
-89.2859° or 89° 17′ 9″ west
Population
28,500
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
Open location code
76GG6P47+3M
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Uzbek—“Tekax” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Tekax”
- Cebuano: “Tecax”
- Chechen: “Текас де Алваро Обрегон (Текас)”
- Chechen: “Текас де Алваро Обрегон”
- Dutch: “Tecax, Yucatán”
- Dutch: “Tekax”
- French: “Tekax”
- German: “Tekax”
- Japanese: “テカシュ”
- Russian: “Текаш”
- Serbian: “Текас де Алваро Обрегон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Opština Tekax”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tecax, Yucatán”
- Spanish: “Tecax”
- Spanish: “Tekax de Álvaro Obregón”
- Spanish: “Tekax”
- Swedish: “Tecax”
- Swedish: “Tekax”
- Tatar: “Текас де Алваро Обрегон (Текас)”
- Tatar: “Текас де Алваро Обрегон”
- Urdu: “ٹیکاکس”
- Uzbek: “Tekax”
- “Tekax”
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