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Calakmul Municipality

Municipality in Campeche, Mexico

Field	Value
name	Calakmul
settlement_type	Municipality
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Mexico
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Campeche
image_shield	CalakmulEscudo.jpg
image_skyline	{{Photomontage
photo1a	Calakmul_sign_in_Xpujil_(Reserva_de_la_Biósfera_Calakmul),_Campeche,_Mexico.jpg
photo2a	Becan (92).JPG
photo2b	Mexico-33 Xpujil Cerveza y Adela.jpg
photo3a	Calakmul Struktur I 2.JPG
photo3b	Selva campechana.JPG
spacing	2
position	center
color_border	white
color	white
size	280
foot_montage	Top: Calakmul letters ; Middle: Becan Archaeological Zone, Xpujil town; Bottom: Calakmul Archaeological Zone, Calakmul Biosphere Reserve
image_map	Calakmul_en_Campeche.svg
map_caption	Location of Calakmul in Campeche.
population_as_of	2020
population_total	31,764
population_blank1_title	Seat
population_blank1	5,729
population_density_km2	auto
area_total_km2	13,987
leader_party	MORENA
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Guadalupe Acevedo Rodríguez
leader_title1
subdivision_type2	Municipal seat and largest seat
subdivision_name2	Xpujil
timezone	CST
utc_offset	−6
timezone_DST	CDT
utc_offset_DST	−5
established_date	December 31, 1996

Calakmul is a municipality in the Mexican state of Campeche, situated in the central part of the Yucatán Peninsula.

History

The municipality was created on 31 December 1996, from part of the territory of Champotón. On 19 June 1998, the State Congress enacted legislation creating the new municipality of Candelaria as of 1 July of that year, and Calakmul lost 24% of its population and a portion of its territory.

Geography

The municipality of Calakmul borders to the east with Quintana Roo (municipalities of José María Morelos, Bacalar, and Othón P. Blanco) and Belize (Orange Walk District); to the south with Guatemala (Petén Department); and to the north and west with other municipalities in Campeche (Candelaria, Champotón, Escárcega and Hopelchén). It covers 13,839.11 km2 (5,343.31 sq mi), accounting for 24.34% of the state's total surface area, and is the 10th-largest municipality in area in the country.

Demographics

The 2020 census reported a population of 31,714. The languages spoken in Calakmul include Yucatec Maya, Ch'ol, Chontal, Tzotzil, and others. The municipal seat is the town of Xpujil, a small settlement of 5,729 inhabitants located on Federal Highway 186 as it crosses the base of the peninsula from Escárcega, Campeche, to Chetumal, Quintana Roo. Apart from Xpujil other localities includes Constitución (1,386 hab.), Zoh-Laguna (1,144 hab.), Pablo García (832 hab.), Nuevo Conhúas (757 hab.) and Ingeniero Ricardo Payro Jene (695 hab.).

Heritage

Maya archaeological sites in the municipality include: Calakmul, Becán, Chicanna, El Hormiguero, Río Bec and Xpuhil. The Calakmul Biosphere Reserve also covers much of its southern portion.

References

Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
Calakmul Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

References

"Localities in Calakmul 2020-INEGI 2020".

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