Municipio Calakmul
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Campeche |
| Seat | Xpujil |
| surface | 14,031.5 km² |
| Residents | 26,882 (2010) |
| density | 1.92 inhabitants per km² |
| founding | 1996 |
| Website | www.calakmul.gob.mx |
| INEGI no. | 04010 |
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| Presidente municipal | Luis Felipe Mora Hernández |
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Coordinates: 18 ° 30 ′ N , 89 ° 35 ′ W
Calakmul is a municipality in the Mexican state of Campeche . The municipality has 26,882 inhabitants (2010 census) and is 14,031.5 km². The administrative seat and largest place of the municipality is Xpujil .
The name Calakmul translates as 'city of adjacent hills'. There are numerous archaeological sites in the municipality, including, in addition to the eponymous Calakmul , Balamkú , Becán , Chicanná , Hormiguero , Nadzcaan , Río Bec , Uxul and Xpuhil . The municipality was created in 1996 by separating from the municipality of Hopelchén .
geography
The municipality of Calakmul forms the southeast of the Mexican state of Campeche and lies largely at an altitude between 100 m and 200 m . It belongs entirely to the physiographic province of the Yucatán peninsula and to the sub-province of the karst and hills of Campeche. The geology of the municipality is dominated by limestone (81%) with 19% alluvion ; the predominant soil types are Leptosol (35%), Vertisol (34%) and Phaeozem (25%). Over 95% of the community area is forested, with a good one percent each used for agriculture or as pasture land.
The municipality of Calakmul borders the municipalities Hopelchén , Candelaria , Escárcega and Champotón as well as the state of Quintana Roo and Guatemala .
population
The 2010 census counted 26,882 people in around 5,900 residential units in the municipality. 7,401 of these people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 5,317 speakers from the Chol and 759 speakers from the Tzeltal . Almost 18% of the population was illiterate. 8,219 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 87% were men or 1% were unemployed. Over 46% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
places
The municipality of Calakmul comprises 158 inhabited localidades , of which only the main town is classified as urban by the INEGI . Ten towns had a population of over 500 in the 2010 census, 87 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
| place | Residents |
| Xpujil | 3,984 |
| Constitución | 1,142 |
| Zoh-Laguna ( Álvaro Obregón ) | 1,074 |
| Pablo García | 699 |
| Ingeniero Ricardo Payro Jene ( Polo Norte ) | 648 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Municipio Calakmul (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: Municipio Calakmul (Spanish; PDF)
