Pachecos entrada

15431544 Pachecos entrada
Part of the Spanish conquest of Yucatán

Conquest (mural 19711979 by F. Castro Pacheco / photo 2004 by Cuilomerto)
Date1 April 1543 – 14 March 1544 (1543-04-01 1544-03-14)
Location
Chetumal, Dzuluinicob, Uaymil provinces, Manche Chʼol and Mopan territory (present-day Belize, Izabal, Quintana Roo)
17°43′07″N 88°32′04″W / 17.718513981249362°N 88.53437744564955°W / 17.718513981249362; -88.53437744564955
Result Spanish victory
Belligerents
Spanish Yucatan
Commanders and leaders
  • Gaspar Pacheco
  • Melchor Pacheco
  • Alonso Pacheco
  • Rodrigo Álvarez
  • Juan Gómez de la Camasa
Strength
  • archers unknown
  • infantrymen unknown
25 to 30 infantrymen
Casualties and losses
  • 10s  100s killed
  • 10s  1000s starved to death
  • missing unknown
  • wounded unknown
  • ill unknown
  • 10000s displaced
  • 10s  100s settlements damaged
  • < 10 killed
  • 0 starved to death
  • 0 missing
  • wounded unknown
  • 1 ill
  • 0 displaced
  • 0 settlements damaged
halach winik = commander-in-chief; nakomo'ob = commanding officers or commanding generals; the halach winik of Chetumal was also the commander-in-chief of Uaymil

The 15431544 Pachecos entrada was the final military campaign in the Spanish conquest of Yucatán, which brought three Postclassic Maya states and several Amerindian settlements in the southeastern quarter of the Yucatán Peninsula under the jurisdiction of Salamanca de Bacalar, a villa of colonial Yucatán, in New Spain. It is commonly deemed one of (if not the) bloodiest and cruelest entradas in the peninsula's conquest, resulting in the deaths of hundreds or thousands, and the displacement of tens of thousands, of Maya residents.