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Catoche, Cape (kätō'chā), extremity of Yucatán peninsula, SE Mexico. It was the first Mexican land seen by the Spanish (1517).

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For the disease formerly called catoche, see catalepsy.
Cabo Catoche on the Yucatán Peninsula

Cabo Catoche or Cape Catoche, in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, is the northernmost point on the Yucatán Peninsula. It is about 53 km (33 miles) north of the city of Cancún.

Catoche was the location of the first intentional landing by Europeans in the territory of modern-day Mexico, the Córdoba expedition of 1517. It was also the site of the first known accidental landing, a shipwreck in 1511 (see: Gonzalo Guerrero).

The name is believed to be a corruption of the Mayan word cotoch, "our houses, our homeland".


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