What are the holidays of Yucatan: Riviera Maya, Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Merida, etc?

It seems like there are a billion holidays in Yucatan! Yucatan has these impromptu parades. In Chelem, which is a pretty tiny place of only 10,000 people, these people always have something going on.
 
The big days here are Labor Day, Semana Santa (Holy Week), which is the biggest of all the holidays, and Christmas is also very celebrated here.
 
Christmas is celebrated here not in the way that we celebrate it in the States. Christmas here in Yucatan is about family and...

It seems like there are a billion holidays in Yucatan! Yucatan has these impromptu parades. In Chelem, which is a pretty tiny place of only 10,000 people, these people always have something going on.
 
The big days here are Labor Day, Semana Santa (Holy Week), which is the biggest of all the holidays, and Christmas is also very celebrated here.
 
Christmas is celebrated here not in the way that we celebrate it in the States. Christmas here in Yucatan is about family and it is a big religious holiday. Day of the Dead is extremely big here, too. There are a lot of other holidays along the way when the government will be closed like in the US.

 

(Patio dressed up for a fiesta with paper banners in a home in Yucatan, Mexico, pictured.)