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Carmen Municipality

Municipality in the Mexican state of Campeche

Field	Value
name	Carmen
image_seal	Escudo Carmen, Mexico.jpg
settlement_type	Municipality
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Mexico
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Campeche
image_map	Carmen en Campeche.svg
map_caption	Location of Carmen
mapsize	200px
pushpin_map	Mexico Campeche#Mexico
population_as_of	2015
population_total	248303
population_density_km2	auto
area_total_km2	8557.3
leader_title	Municipal president
leader_name	José Ignacio Seara Sierra (2006-09)
subdivision_type2	Municipal seat
subdivision_name2	Ciudad del Carmen
blank_name	Created
blank_info	1916
blank1_name	Demonym
blank1_info	Carmeios o Carmelitas
blank2_name	Postal Code
blank2_info	24180
timezone	CST
utc_offset	−6
timezone_DST	CDT
utc_offset_DST	−5
coordinates
website	[www.carmen.gob.mx/](http://www.carmen.gob.mx/)

Carmen is one of the 13 municipalities in the Mexican state of Campeche. It is situated at the south-west of the state, on and around the Laguna de Términos. The municipal seat and largest settlement is Ciudad del Carmen. As of 2015, the population was 248,303.

The name "Carmen" is in honour of 16 July, the feast of Nuestra Señora del Carmen, after the date in 1717 when Spanish colonial authorities finally expelled the pirates from the island now known as Isla del Carmen.

Geography

The municipality of Carmen borders to the north with the Gulf of Mexico; to the west with the municipality of Palizada; and to the east with the municipalities of Champotón, Escárcega and Candelaria. It covers a total surface area of 9,720.09 km2.

Demographics

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 221,094.

The municipality had 1,886 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Ciudad del Carmen (169,466), Sabancuy (7,286), Isla Aguada (6,204), Nuevo Progreso (4,851), San Antonio Cárdenas (4,206), Atasta (2,535), classified as urban, and Checubul (1,811), Chicbul (1,692), Colonia Emiliano Zapata (1,311), El Aguacatal (1,270), Mamantel (Pancho Villa) (1,262), Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (18 de Marzo) (1,239), and Abelardo L. Rodríguez (1,130), classified as rural.

The 2005 census reported a population of 199,988 persons. Of these, 4,151 spoke one of 25 indigenous languages used in the municipality, predominantly Ch'ol and Yucatec Maya.

References

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

References

"Carmen". [[Secretaría de Desarrollo Social]] (SEDESOL).

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