Peto, Yucatán

Peto is a town and the municipal seat of the Peto Municipality, Yucatán in Mexico. As of 2010, the town has a population of 19,821.

Etymology
From the Maya pet crown and uj moon thus meaning crowned moon, in reference to a lunar halo.



List of mayors

 * Gerónimo Sánchez (1941-1942)
 * Wilfrido Alonso (1943-1944)
 * Pedro Muñoz Sánchez (1945-1946)
 * Francisco Trejo (1947-1949)
 * Rosendo Arrollo (1950-1952)
 * Guillermo Baduy Ayala (1953-1955)
 * José I. Hernández (1956-1958)
 * Nicolás Sogbi Canto (1959-1961)
 * Casildo Arroyo (1962-1963)
 * Juan Escamilla Sosa (1963)
 * Sergio Salazar López (1963-1967)
 * Zenón Muñoz Martínez (1968-1970)
 * César A. Ruiz V. (1971-1973)
 * Mario Arturo Pérez (1974-1975)
 * Sergio Salazar López (1976-1978)
 * Roger Calero Muñoz (1979-1981)
 * Felipe Sosa Buenfil (1982-1984)
 * Gilberto Góngora Sánchez (1985-1987)
 * Héctor Sosa Duarte (1988-1990)
 * José Vicente Domínguez Canto (1991-1993)
 * Castulo Ake Can (1994-1995)
 * Samuel Castillo Yah (1996-1998)
 * Ruperto Sánchez Uluhac -(1999-2001)
 * Jorge Román Avilez y Manzanilla (2001-2004)
 * Gilberto Alonso Navarrete Vázquez (2004-2007)
 * José Vicente Domínguez Canto (2007-2010)
 * Martha Raquel González Cámara (2010-2012)
 * Higinio Chan Acosta (2012-2015)
 * Jaime Ariel Hernández Santos (2015-2018)
 * Edgar Román Calderón Sosa (2018-2021)