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'''Xtul''', (pronounced {{IPA|/ʃtul/}}), is a small [[village]] in the state of [[Yucatán (state)|Yucatán]], [[Mexico]]. It is on the north [[Gulf of Mexico]] coast, located {{Convert|24|km||abbr=on}} west of the city of [[Progreso, Yucatán|Progreso]] inside of the Progreso  municipality, about halfway along the road between [[Sisal, Yucatán|Sisal]] and Progreso.<ref name="SCT Map of Yucatan">{{cite web | title = SCT Map of Yucatan | url = http://dgp.sct.gob.mx/fileadmin/Atlas/yucatan.pdf | access-date = 2009-10-23 | archive-date = 2009-01-26 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090126152518/http://dgp.sct.gob.mx/fileadmin/Atlas/yucatan.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref> The village, like a few others located on the gulf coast, was a location where [[Sodium chloride|salt]] was harvested from the tidal pools in the area; the salt trade in this area dates back to [[Pre-Columbian]] times.

Xtul is noted as the location where some 30 members of [[The Process Church of The Final Judgment]] went in 1966.<ref>Bainbridge, William Sims ''The sociology of religious movements'', page 242. Routledge, December 1996. {{ISBN|0-415-91202-4}}</ref> They set up camp in an abandoned salt factory.<ref name="Information about the Best Friends Animal Society">{{cite web | title = History of the Best Friends Animal Society | url = http://www.bestfriendsinfo.com/History.html | access-date = 2009-11-12 | archive-date = 2009-07-25 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090725133503/http://www.bestfriendsinfo.com/History.html | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Love Sex Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgement | author = Timothy Wyllie | publisher = [[Feral House]] | year = 2009 | isbn=978-1-932595-37-6}}</ref>  While there they were hit by [[Hurricane Inez]].<ref>Bainbridge, William Sims ''The sociology of religious movements'', page 244. Routledge, December 1996. {{ISBN|0-415-91202-4}}</ref><ref name="Hurricane Inez (09/21 - 10/11)">{{cite web | title = 1966 Storm Archive | url = http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at19669.asp | access-date = 2009-11-12 }}</ref> The resulting storm lasted for three days.<ref name="Information about the Best Friends Animal Society"/> 

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