Kan Ek'
Maya · mortal · colonial · Recorded classification
The Itza held out on an island in a lake for a hundred and seventy-three years after Alvarado, which is the longest surviving indigenous state in the Americas by a wide margin, and their capital fell in an afternoon. Nojpetén is under the modern town of Flores; the temples the Spanish burned that morning were the last functioning Maya temples anywhere. The registry carried the tradition and not the end of it.
Domains
- kingship
- resistance
Sources
- Kan Ek' is the Itza ruler at Nojpetén, the last independent Maya king, taken alive on 13 March 1697 when the Spanish stormed the island and burned its temples, and dead in captivity at Mérida.: Reference treatments of Kan Ek', Nojpetén and the conquest of the Petén Itza kingdom in 1697. (secondary)