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Putún
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Putún is the name of a Mayan ethnic group on the periphery of Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. According to the encyclopedia Yucatán en el tiempo (Yucatán over Time) and other authors cited by the same encyclopedia, the people of Putún, called Putunes, are identified with and even assimilated into the Chontal Maya.[1] They were originally based in the delta of the Usumacinta and Grijalva Rivers, a region of waterways, lakes, and swamps in which aquatic transport dominated, as it did around the Laguna de Términos and through the numerous rivers that ended there. Although it is thought that over time the Putún inhabited a widespread area that consisted of important chiefdoms, like the Chakán Putún and the Chetumal.
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The Putunes, or Chontal Maya, established founded two main populations: Potonchan (Putunchan), situated in the mouth of the Grijalva River in the current state of Tabasco, and Itzamkanac, near the Candelaria River, which ends at the Laguna de Términos in Campeche.