Chan Santa Cruz
Chan Santa Cruz U Noh Kah Balam Nah Chan Santa Cruz | |||||||||
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| 1849–1901 | |||||||||
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Flag of Chan Santa Cruz | |||||||||
Territory under the Mayan control, c. 1870. | |||||||||
| Capital | Noh Kah Balam Nah Chan Santa Cruz | ||||||||
| Common languages | Mayan languages | ||||||||
| Halach Uinik (governor) | |||||||||
• 1849–1852 | Jose Maria Barrera | ||||||||
| Ahau K'atun Kiuik' (supreme general) | |||||||||
• Longest serving | Bernardino Cen | ||||||||
• Last | Francisco May | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1849 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1901 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Quintana Roo | ||||||||
Chan Santa Cruz was a late 19th-century indigenous Maya state in the modern-day Mexican state of Quintana Roo. It was also the name of a shrine that served as the center of the Maya Cruzoob religious movement, and of the town that developed around the shrine, now known as Felipe Carrillo Puerto. The town was historically the main center of what is now Quintana Roo, and it acted as the de facto capital for the Maya during the Caste War of Yucatán.