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Nacuche

town in Espita Municipality, State of Yucatán, Mexico

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ6957344
Source-derived summary

Nacuche is a village in Espita Municipality, Yucatan (Mexico) located on the Litoral Oriente (East Coast) or Region I of Yucatan. It has an average height of 29 meters. The population was 1,130 at the 2005 census made by the INEGI.

Geography

Nacuche is located at 20°55′2″N 88°17′45″W (20.922778, -88.295833). According to the census data by the INEGI, the village has an average elevation of 29 meters above sea level.

Climate

The village has a climate of Aw1 (Köppen), warm humid, mean annual temperature over 22 °C and coldest month temperature over 18 °C. Precipitation of driest month less than 60 mm rainfall in summer and winter rainfall rate of 10.2% of the annual total.

Demographics

As of the census of 2005 made by the INEGI, there were 1,130 people (7.83% of the municipality), of which 589 were men and 541 women. In the village were 240 households.

Education

See also

Espita Municipality

Yucatan

References

External links

Espita.gob.mx - Official site of the municipality (site temporarily suspended).

Panoramio - Nacuche's photos at Panoramio.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Nacuche” as town in Espita Municipality, State of Yucatán, Mexico. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nacuche, town and Espita.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nacuche, town and Espita providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Nacuche”, the useful work is to connect “town in Espita Municipality, State of Yucatán, Mexico” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6957344. Authority coordinates are 20.923, -88.296. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Nacuche” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.