What culture is Yucatán Peninsula?

The Yucatán Peninsula is home to North America's largest indigenous population, the Mayans. Yucatán has the highest percentage of indigenous language speakers in the country. According to legend, when Francisco Hernández de Córdova arrived on the coast of Yucatán, he asked the natives where he was.



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Maya, Mesoamerican Indians occupying a nearly continuous territory in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize.

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In contrast to the significant Native American and European ancestry of Guatemalans, the average African component is very low in Guatemala, and it appears almost exclusively in 'Ladinos' (3.6%). There was only one Maya who shows a moderate percentage of African co-ancestry (4.4%).

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The Maya Indians were so short that some scholars called them the pygmies of Central America: the men averaged only five feet two, the women four feet eight.

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