Campeche (State)

Campeche

Capital

San Francisco de Campeche

surface

57,924 km² (rank 18 )

population

822,441 (rank 30 )

Population density

14.2 inhabitants per km²
(2010 census)

governor

Carlos Miguel Aysa González ( PRI )
(2019-2021)

Federal MPs

Morena = 2
(2 federal constituencies)

Senators

PES = 1
Morena = 1
PVEM = 1

ISO 3166-2

MX-CAM

Postal abbreviation

Camp.

Website

www.campeche.gob.mx

The Mexican state of Campeche [ kamˈpe.tʃe ], officially Free and Sovereign State of Campeche ( Spanish Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche ) occupies the western third of the Yucatán peninsula and was organized in 1857 as an independent unit. It is bordered by Tabasco to the west, Guatemala to the south, Quintana Roo to the east and the state of Yucatán to the northeast . It has an area of 57,924 km² with about 822,000 inhabitants.

A large part of it consists of inaccessible tropical rainforests , but in the far west it has a share of the oil fields on the Gulf of Mexico .

history

The territory of the state was shaped by the Maya in pre-Columbian times . Your former city Edzná is together with Calakmul the most important ruins in Campeche. In the southeast, on the border with Quintana Roo, lie the ruins of the Río Bec group (the largest of which is Xpuhil ), the most prominent feature of which is the so-called “pseudo pyramids ”. The Uxul settlement was rediscovered in 2005.

After the Spanish conquest , today's Campeche belonged to the general captainate of Yucatán , which was founded in 1617 in the viceroyalty of New Spain . It was ruled by a governor and was under the jurisdiction of the Real Audiencia of Mexico . With the independence of Mexico, Campeche became part of the Mexican Empire .

Population development

year	population
1970	251,556
1980	420,553
1990	535.185
1995	642,516
2000	690.689
2005	754.730
2010	822.441
2015	899.931

cities and communes

The state is divided into eleven municipalities . Largest city of the state whose capital is San Francisco de Campeche (also briefly Campeche ) with 220,389 inhabitants. Other cities with more than 10,000 inhabitants are Ciudad del Carmen (169,466), Champotón (30,881), Escárcega (29,477), Calkiní (14,934), Dzitbalché (11,686) and Hecelchakán (10,285). In the state lies with the airport Campeche a commercial airport.

Web links

Commons : Campeche - collection of images, videos and audio files

State website (Spanish)

Individual evidence

↑ Mexico: States and Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .
^ [1] Catálogo Único de Claves de Áreas Geoestadísticas Estatales, Municipales y Localidades

18.836388888889 -90.403333333333Coordinates: 18 ° 50 ′ N , 90 ° 24 ′ W

[1] Mexico: States and Cities - Population Statistics in Maps and Tables. Retrieved July 26, 2018 .

[2] [1] Catálogo Único de Claves de Áreas Geoestadísticas Estatales, Municipales y Localidades