Spanish colonial province of the Yucatán Peninsula, conquered piecemeal by the Montejo family (1527-1547) against the Postclassic Maya kuchkabal states, with its capital founded atop the Maya city of T'hó in 1542.
Survived a major pan-Maya coalition uprising in 1546-47; administratively upgraded to a Captaincy General in 1617 for defense against foreign incursion; ended with Mexican independence in 1821.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Captaincy General of Yucatán — the shape you scrub through changes in 1542 · 1697.
The classic English-language monograph on exactly this conquest and founding period, spanning the Montejo expeditions through the 1546-47 revolt.