Editing Chetumal (section)

===Foundation===
The government of [[Porfirio Díaz]] decided to end the Maya revolt situation, resolving to fight the rebel Maya and to achieve this it definitively established the boundaries with British Honduras at the [[Rio Hondo (Belize)|Rio Hondo]], according to a treaty signed in 1893,<ref>web citation s/he/he/he/she http://portal.sre.gob.mx/cilasur/pdf/tratadomexbel1893.pdf.e. title, treaty of boundaries between Mexico and British Honduras, dateaccess, October 31, 2008, author Secretariat of Foreign Affairs 'urlfile' https://web.archive.org/web/20100331095202/http://portal.sre.gob.mx/cilasur/pdf/tratadomexbel1893.pdf 'filedate' 31 March 2010'</ref> also separated the new one from the state of Yucatan Federal Territory of Quintana Roo and sent the army to fight the Maya.

The first step in combating them was to prevent the trafficking of arms from Belize and to assert Mexican sovereignty at that end of the territory, so it was decided to build a fort and customs section at the point where the Hondo River feeds into Chetumal Bay, which they named Payo Obispo in honor of [[Payo Enríquez de Rivera]], who as bishop of Guatemala had visited the region in the 1660s. An officer of the navy, [[Othón P. Blanco]], suggested that as it was an unexplored place and without any certainty of what the terrain would be like, it would be better to send to the place a [[Float (nautical)|pontoon]] then anchored at the point of the bay or the Hondo River, which could serve as a barracks and customs section while a permanent establishment was being achieved, as the pontoon would allow for rapid mobility and increased surveillance. Blanco's suggestion was accepted and he was also appointed command of such pontoon and chief of the operation; the pontoon was built in [[New Orleans]] and Blanco gave it the name Pontón Chetumal, in memory of the Maya name for the region. He left New Orleans in late 1897 and, after making stops in [[Progreso, Yucatán|Progreso]], [[Yucatan]] and [[Cozumel]], arrived at the mouth of the Hondo River on 22 January 1898.

Othón P. Blanco quickly organized the garrison and ordered the clearing of the coast, covered with [[mangrove]], to establish a permanent population on the mainland, and also came into contact with Mexicans residing in [[Corozal Town (Belize)|Corozal]] and survivors of the [[Bacalar]] massacre and communicated their intentions to establish a new population, inviting them to return to Mexico.

Finally, Othón P. Blanco officially founded the new town, on 5 May 1898, with neighbors from Corozal and other parts of the peninsula and gave it the name ''Payo Obispo''', as the region was already known. On the origin of this name it is mentioned that it comes from Fray [[Payo Enríquez de Rivera]], who was [[Archbishop of Mexico]] and [[Viceroy of New Spain]], but that when he was Bishop of [[Guatemala]] he came to pay a visit to Bacalar, landing at the point that received his name.