Lázaro Cárdenas, Quintana Roo Explained

Official Name:Lázaro Cárdenas
Settlement Type:Municipality
Flag Size:120x80px
Image Blank Emblem:Escudo de Lazaro Cardenas, Quintana Roo.svg
Blank Emblem Size:100x80px
Pushpin Map:Mexico
Pushpin Label Position:left
Pushpin Map Caption:Location within Mexico
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:State
Seat Type:Municipal seat
Seat:Kantunilkín
Government Footnotes:[1]
Leader Title:Municipal President
Leader Name:Clementino Angulo
Area Total Km2:3881
Population Footnotes:[2]
Population Density Km2:auto
Population Urban:7150
Timezone:Eastern Standard Time
Utc Offset:-5
Coordinates:21.1°N -116°W
Elevation M:20
Blank Name Sec1:INEGI Code
Blank Info Sec1:23007

Lázaro Cárdenas (pronounced as /es/) is one of the eleven municipalities that make up the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Its municipal seat is the town of Kantunilkín, which was founded on 10 October 1859.[1] Its borders are, to the west, the municipalities of Tizimín and Chemax in the state of Yucatán, to the east the municipalities of Isla Mujeres and Benito Juárez, and to the south Solidaridad.

It is named after Lázaro Cárdenas del Río who was President of Mexico from 1934 to 1940.

Geography

Like most of the Yucatan Peninsula, Lázaro Cárdenas is entirely flat with a gentle slope towards the sea, so from west to east.

Like the rest of the peninsula's surface, the land has a limestone base that does not allow the formation of surface water flows such as rivers and streams, the water instead forms flows in underground rivers that sometimes rise to the surface in the cenotes. Lakes and cenotes are the major bodies of water in the municipality.

Communities

The municipality is made up of 82 populated localities (localidades), as well as 81 unpopulated localities. The largest localities (cities, towns, and villages) are:[2]

Name Population
(2010 Census)
7,150
Ignacio Zaragoza 2,213
1,486
Chiquilá 1,466
Nuevo Valladolid 1,294
Nuevo Xcán 1,130
El Tintal 1,074
San Ángel 1,041
El Ideal 818
799
San Francisco 767
El Cedral 752
225
Total municipality 25,333

Notes and References

  1. http://www.lazarocardenas.gob.mx/ El municipio de Lázaro Cárdenas
  2. http://mapserver.inegi.org.mx/mgn2k/?s=geo&c=1223 2010 census tables: INEGI