Tinum Municipality (Yucatec Maya: "crippled numtzutzuy") is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing of land and is located roughly east of the city of Mérida.
There is no accurate data on when the town was founded, but it was a settlement before the conquest and was located in the chieftainship of Cupules. Within the municipality is Chichen Itza, a city built in the Post Classic Maya period, which reached its apex between the 11th and 12th centuries.
After colonization by the Spanish, the area became part of the encomienda system with various encomenderos, beginning with Juan GarcÃÂa de Llanos in 1549 and passing to the crown in 1551. In 1607, it passed to Baltasar Pacheco Dorantes.
Yucatán declared its independence from the Spanish Crown in 1821. In 1825 the Mexican government assigned this community to the Valladolid Municipality. In 1918 Tinum was designated as an independent municipality.
The municipal president is elected for a three-year term. The town council has seven councilpersons, who serve as Secretary and councilors of public works, police commissaries, education, ecology, public monuments and sports.
The seat of the municipality is Tinum. The municipality has 37 populated places besides the seat, including Balantún, Chichén Itzá, Chichil, Dzulotok, Macuchén, Pisté, San Francisco, San Felipe, San Felipe Nuevo, San José, San Nicolás, Santa MarÃÂa, Tohopkú, and X-Calakoop. The significant populations are shown below:
Every year on 12 June, the town celebrates the feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, its patron saint.