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Cities throughout the Yucatán continued to trade during the Post-Classic when the area was dominated first by Chichén Itzá and Uxmal and then by Mayapán (1263 - 1461). Many cities in Quintana Roo, particularly those along the coast, reached their peak during this period and commerce was their driving force. The canoes of Chontal traders from Tabasco and Campeche skirted the Quintana Roo shoreline on their way south.
After the fall of Mayapán, the political landscape of the Peninsula changed with the formation of 19 cacicazgos or city states, three of which were in Quintana Roo: Ekab to the north; Cochuah along the modern-day frontier between the state and Yucatán, and Chetemal in the south.
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