Kaua Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing of land and is located roughly 135 kilometres southeast of …Kaua Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing of land and is located roughly 135 kilometres southeast of the city of Mérida. There is no accurate data on when the town was founded, but it was a settlement before the conquest. After colonization, the area became part of the encomienda system with various encomenderos, beginning in 1544 with Juan de la Cruz, passing in 1607 to Juan Gil de la Cruz and Tomé Gil de la Cruz, to Ignacio de Escalante Barroto in 1663 and to Diego Escalante from 1700 to 1750.
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