. "The Spanish conquest of Yucat\u00E1n was the campaign undertaken by the Spanish conquistadores against the Late Postclassic Maya states and polities in the Yucat\u00E1n Peninsula, a vast limestone plain covering south-eastern Mexico, northern Guatemala, and all of Belize. The Spanish conquest of the Yucat\u00E1n Peninsula was hindered by its politically fragmented state. The Spanish engaged in a strategy of concentrating native populations in newly founded colonial towns."@en . . .