Kaxil Uinic was a San Pedro Maya village in the south western corner of the Orange Walk District from around 1875 to 1931.
San Pedro Maya founded Kaxil Uinic sometime between 1868 when they abandoned their village of Holhuitz in northeastern Peten to 1885, when the village first appears in the archival record. The earliest mention of Kaxil Uinic comes from a statement to the Police Inspector of British Honduras in January 1885, which mentions that several “Mexicans” escaped through the village to Icaiche after committing murders at a mahogany bank near San José Yalbac.[1]
Under the Honduras Land Titles Act of 1861, the British Honduras Company purchased around 1 million acres of land, which included the land where Kaxil Uinic, San Pedro Siris, San José Yalbac and other Indian settlements were located.[1]
With advancements in technology, the Belize Estate and Produce Company (BEC) was able to cut mahogany farther and farther inland, conflicting with the Maya milpa farming practices. So in 1931 the company forcibly moved the villagers to San José Yalbac, and that village in turn was later forcibly evicted to San José Palmar.[1]