page_title: Can Pech
section_title: Etymology
hierarchical_section_title: Can Pech / Etymology
caption_attribution_description: Uxmal, Mexico Cuadràngulo de las Monjas (detail)
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: In Yucatec Kaan Peech means snake tick. Can Pech was founded by Ah k'iin peech. Ah Kin or Ah K'iin being a rank of priest.
caption: A snake and tick on a wall at Uxmal
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