Maxcanú

It is located on Federal Highway 180, approximately 62 km (39 mi) south of Mérida.

Facilities available in Maxcanú include: internet cafes; grocery stores; fresh produce market; family restaurants; public telephones; hardware stores; bus station (for connections to Mérida and Campeche); and a "combi" taxi stand for travelling to local villages.

Maxcanú railway station on the Tren Maya is just outside of town.

The town is located on Federal Highway 180, approximately 62 km (39 mi) south of Mérida.

Maxcanú is the birthplace of Alfredo Barrera Vásquez, the noted Mexican anthropologist and Mayanist scholar who was the principal editor behind the Diccionario Maya Cordemex  [es], the influential Mayan-Spanish dictionary and orthography.