Jacinto Canek, or Jacinto Uc de los Santos (ca. 1731, barrio de San Román, City of Campeche, New Spain—December 14, 1761, Mérida, New Spain) was an eighteenth-century Maya revolutionary who fought against the Spanish in the Yucatán Peninsula of New Spain.The settingThe Spanish conquest of Yucatán ended in the late seventeenth century, with the fall of the Itza people, the last group of Mayas able to resist the conquistadors. However, the Mayas continued armed revolt against the Sp