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The name of municipality comes from the Maya language and officially translated into Spanish means "Rain or necessary water", as the result of the words Tel, contraction of teel, indispensable or necessary and chac, contraction of chaac, rain or water. Erroneously it is said that meaning is "Red Rooster" (Tel means rooster and Chac means red).
The denomination "Pueblo" (English: Town), is used to differentiate it from the nearby town called Telchac Puerto (English: Port of Telchac). Both were once a single municipality, but in 1932, for political problems, it split into two municipalities. When Telchac Puerto was part of Telchac Pueblo it name was Miramar, and even now there is an area that keeps that name in Telchac Puerto, Telchac Pueblo kept that area after the separation, but eventually, lost that part and the town lost all the territory bordering the sea.
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