It is also the birthplace of Olegario Molina y Solis, the Governor of Yucatán and Minister de Fomento in the Porfirio Díaz era (1877–1911).

This was due to the efforts of Julian Molina y Bastante (Olegario's grandfather) and the brothers Martinez.

The large Bolonchén ruins site of ancient Maya architecture is located just north of the modern town.

Most of the carved stone facades of the ancient structures were removed in the 18th through mid−20th centuries for reuse in new construction work.

Both the ruins and cave were visited and described briefly by John Lloyd Stephens at the start of the 1840s, but no detailed scholarly examination of the ruins was made until Eric von Euw in 1973 (in part because Stephens and other early visitors failed to note that there were surviving inscriptions).