Río Lagartos Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing of land and is located roughly 215 kilometres northeast of …Río Lagartos Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing of land and is located roughly 215 kilometres northeast of the city of Mérida. There is no accurate data on when the town was founded, but before the conquest, it was part of the chieftainship of Ecab. After colonization, it became the Spanish colony's northeastern port. Before 1580, Antonio Rodríguez convinced the Yucatecan Governor Guillén de las Casas to appoint him as guard of the port. Rodríguez negotiated with the chieftains Chuyubchuen, Kikil, Panabá and Sucopó to provide him with indigenous workers to mine salt, fish or make ashes for soap. He secured almost a monopoly on the native workers requiring any Spaniard wanting to open a new enterprise to negotiate with him to rent workers.
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