Acanceh Municipality (In the Yucatec Maya Language: “Where the deer moans”) is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (153.29 km2) of land and located roughly 32 km southeast of the city of Mérida.

[1] After the conquest during the colonial period, the Municipality of Acanceh was founded as an encomienda in the second half of the sixteenth century.

The most notable of the encomenderos were Francisco de Arceo and the Lady Ana Arguelles.

[1] In the modern era, Governor Prisciliano Cortés granted Acanceh the rank of city in 1914, but that was revoked by Governor Salvador Alvarado when he declared official acts of the previous administration null and void.

[4] The municipality is made up of 6 communities: Every year from 3 to 7 October Tepich holds the celebration in honor to the Virgin of the Rosary; from 14 to 17 August, in Petectunich they celebrate the Immaculate Conception; and from November 27 to December 12 is the festival of our Lady of Guadalupe.