Cozumel Historical Monuments | Interesting Places

According to the version of the lifetime chronicler of the city, in 1907 the citizens of Cozumel were preparing to celebrate the one hundred years of Mexico’s independence struggle and a committee was installed here, originally headed by Don Hipólito Vivas Rejón and later by Don Ladislao Novelo.

Among a series of celebrations that were organized, it was agreed that, with the collaboration of the people, a tower would be built and a public clock would be installed, which meant a service that Cozumel lacked at that time, and that was part of the characteristic of all the towns, to have next to the school, the municipal palace, the church and the public clock.

Then, with the collaboration of the people, which was very important since many contributed with labor and construction material, on September 15, 1910 at 11 o’clock at night, the public clock tower was officially inaugurated.

It is worth mentioning that Don Hipólito Vivas Rejón was the great-grandfather of Víctor Manuel Vivas González, who was the municipal president during the period 96-99, and who also as municipal president had the second public clock installed on the island, and is located above the presidential balcony of the palace; and with a special characteristic, which are the Mayan numbers on the clock’s dials.

It is important to emphasize that a few days ago, the municipal president, Juan Carlos González Hernández commented in an unofficial way that the dials and new machinery for the municipal public clock located in the Benito Juárez park were already acquired, precisely in the framework of the celebrations of the bicentennial of the Independence and the bicentennial of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution, although he did not disclose the investment costs.

Source: El Quintanarroense