Chinamita
The Chinamitas or Tulumkis (Nahuatl chinamitl, Mopan tulumki) were likely a Mopan Maya people who constituted the former Chinamita Territory, an early Columbian polity of the Maya Lowlands, likely in present-day Belize and Guatemala. In the early 17th century, the Territory probably lay along the Mopan River in the eastern Petén Basin and neighbouring portions of western Belize, being thereby situated east of the Itza of Nojpetén, south of the Yaxhá and Sacnab lakes, and west of Tipuj.
Territory of the Chinamita | |
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| ca 16th cent–ca 1700 | |
Location of the Chinamita Territory in the 17th century / most commonly accepted location in dark grey, with alternative ones in light grey / 2023 map based on scholarship / via Commons | |
| Status | Dissolved |
| Capital | Tulumki / likely |
| Common languages | Mopan Mayan / likely |
| Religion | Maya polytheism |
| Demonym(s) | Chinamita; Tulumki |
| Government | Confederacy of settlements with aristocratic and theocratic features / possibly |
| Historical era | Spanish to Precolonial / likely |
• Established | ca 16th cent |
• Disestablished | ca 1700 |
| Today part of | Belize / likely Guatemala / certain |
Founding and dissolution dates per Jones 1998, pp. 19–20 and Palka 2005, pp. 1–2. Capital per Rice & Rice 2009, p. 13 and Jones 1998, pp. 19–20. Common language per Rice & Rice 2009, pp. 12–13 and Jones 1998, pp. 20–21, though see Thompson 1977, p. 13 for dissent. Demonym per Rice & Rice 2009, p. 13 and Jones 1998, pp. 20–21, 433–434. Government per Jones 1998, pp. 20–22. | |
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