It is estimated that Nachi Cocom was born about 1510 and was the halach Uinik Sotuta, jurisdiction near the present city of Merida in the Mexican state of Yucatan.
When the Spanish conquered the Yucatan peninsula, they imposed their religion and showed their weapons technology (weapons throwing lightning and thunder sounded like swords, metal and not obsidian) and were faced with this halach Uinik distinguished by mighty pride in defending their land and culture.
In 1535, when the Spanish withdrew five years of the Yucatan peninsula, the ancient rivalry and Tutul Cocomes Xiues, was reintroduced, and it was then directing Nachi Cocom Sotuta Cocomes Dzum who defeated Ah was in command of the Tutul Xiues Peanut, ambushed in the town of Otzmal.
The Spanish founded Merida on the site of the city of T'Hó in 1542, but by then it had Spanish settlements in the area, San Francisco de Campeche was founded 2 years earlier, the treatment accorded to these indigenous and the imposition of the new religion led to the revolt of the Cocomes.
Nachi Cocom was clear about the liberation struggle of his people, opposed to the idea that their gods permit and encourage the settlement of Europeans. He intended to fight against the gods if these benefit the invaders.
la localidad de Nachi Cocom está situado en el Municipio de Othón P. Blanco (en el Estado de Quintana Roo). Tiene 761 habitantes. Nachi Cocom está a 50 metros de altitud.
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