page_title: Can Pech
section_title: European contact
hierarchical_section_title: Can Pech / History / European contact
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Gezicht op St. Francisco de Campeche, op de inzet Yucatan en de Golf van Honduras. St. Francisco de Campeche. Legenda: 1 t'Klooster / 2 Huysen der Indianen / 3 Een Capelle / 4 De Nieuwe Kerck de los Remedios / 5 De Groote Kerck / 6 Het Raedthuys / 7 het fort ofte Batterye / 8 Scheep timmerwerven / 9 De Kerck St. Roman / Baterye met twee Stucken / 11 Plaetse daer t'volck landen / 12 Syn 22 Spaense prysen / T'jacht de Nachtegael / 14 De Chaloupe Gysselinghe / 15 De twee Boots varende langs strand. Op de grote kerk staat een Nederlandse vlag, maar het is onduidelijk of en hoelang de plaats in handen van de WIC is geweest. English: View of St. Francisco de Campeche, depicted in the inset Yucatan and the Gulf of Honduras. St. Francisco de Campeche. Key: 1 t'Klooster / 2 Huysen der Indianen / 3 Een Capelle / 4 De Nieuwe Kerck de los Remedios / 5 De Groote Kerck / 6 Het Raedthuys / 7 het fort ofte Batterye / 8 Scheep timmerwerven / 9 De Kerck St. Roman / Baterye met twee Stucken / 11 Plaetse daer t'volck landen / 12 Syn 22 Spaense prysen / T'jacht de Nachtegael / 14 De Chaloupe Gysselinghe / 15 De twee Boots varende langs strand. The Dutch tricolour is depicted flying from the church, but it is unclear whether, and if so for how long, the region was in the hands of the WIC.
context_page_description: Can Pech 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.
  In 1517 the population of the capital city Campeche was approximately 36,000.
context_section_description: On March 22, 1517 a Spanish ship docked in Campeche city. The Spaniards traded for water with the Maya there.
  Missed the water and we had to jump ashore with the people, and was a Sunday of Lazarus, and this cause proceeded to that town name Lazarus, and so is the sea charts, and the proper name of Indian Campeche said ... And was there a good water well, where the natives of that population drank in those lands because, as we have seen there are no rivers, and took the pipes to fill them with water, and turn to the ships.  And as they were full and wanted us to ship, came the people work fifty Indians, with good cotton blankets and peace, and what appeared should be caciques, and tell us by signs what we wanted and gave them to understand that water and then go to the ships, and we noted with hands if we came from where the sun rises and said "Castilan", "Castilan" and not look in lecture about "Castilan" - True History of the Conquest of New Spain, Bernal Díaz del Castillo
  The Spaniards were taken into the city and given a tour of the palaces and pyramids. They were treated well and they treated the Maya there well. But there was tension after having recently lost a battle with Ekab soldiers.
  And being so many other Indians came, they brought very dastardly blankets, buckets full of reeds and put on a plain, and then, after these, came two squadrons of Indian archers, spears and shields, and slings and stones, with their weapons of cotton, and made in concert and each squad captain, which is short distance away from us;  and then at that moment went to another house, which was his shrine idols, ten Indians who brought clothes blankets long cotton that gave to their feet, and were white, and very big hair, full of revolt blood with them, they can not even comb desparcir or if not cut;  Indians whom were priests of idols, which in New Spain potatoes are commonly called, and thus will name hereafter ... And those potatoes brought incense, as a way of resin called copal among them, and with clay braziers full of coals we began to fumigate, and signs will tell us that we leave their lands before that there are joint wood fire place and burn finished;  if not, we will kill war.  And then they sent fire to the reeds and the popes were, no more no talk". - "Conquest of Yucatán", Diego Lopez de Cogollado
caption: Campeche after the conquest
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