Chemax, Yucatán: 8 Places to Visit, Map & Guide

8 places with their own page in the municipality of Chemax, in the state of Yucatán.

Map of Chemax

Chemax · Town
A Maya market town on the old Highway 180 east of Valladolid, with a big yellow 16th-century church and a June fiesta for San Antonio.

Chechmil · Village
Small Maya village in Chemax municipality northeast of Valladolid, with a cenote with a wooden stairway in the woods nearby.
Sisbichén · Village
Maya farming village north of Chemax, with a tall red church whose two slim bell towers rise above the bush.
X-Can · Village
Chemax's second-largest town, on the old free highway between Valladolid and Cancún near the Quintana Roo line, with a village church.
Kuxeb · Village
Small Maya farming village in the woods north of Chemax, settled in the 1930s and now home to about 900 people.
Cocoyol · Village
A small Maya village in Chemax, near the Quintana Roo border, best visited for its San Antonio de Padua fiesta in mid-June.
Mucel · Village
Maya farming village of about 1,200 people in the woods of northern Chemax, at the end of the local road past Kuxeb.
Uspibil · Village
A small Maya village in the forest north-east of Valladolid, named after the uspib plant, with a deep open cenote called Aktun Uspibil.