Lázaro Cárdenas Municipality, Quintana Roo
Lázaro Cárdenas is ane o the ten municipalities that mak up the Mexican state o Quintana Roo. Its municipal seat is the toun o Kantunilkín, which wis foondit on 10 October 1859.[1] Its borders are, tae the wast, the municipalities o Tizimín an Chemax in the state o Yucatán, tae the east the municipalities o Isla Mujeres an Benito Juárez, an tae the sooth Solidaridad.
Lázaro Cárdenas | |
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Municipality | |
 Emblem | |
 Location o Lázaro Cárdenas in Quintana Roo | |
  Lázaro Cárdenas Location o Lázaro Cárdenas in Mexico | |
| Coordinates: 21°06′10″N 87°29′16″W / 21.10278°N 87.48778°W | |
| Kintra | Mexico |
| State | Quintana Roo |
| Municipal Seat | Kantunilkín |
| Named for | Lázaro Cárdenas |
| Govrenment | |
| • Municipal Preses[1] | Profr. Clementino Angulo Cupul |
| Area | |
| • Municipality | 3881 km2 (1,498 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 20 m (70 ft) |
| Population (2010 [2]) | |
| • Municipality | 25,333 |
| • Urban | 7,150 |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central Staundart Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (Central Daylicht Time) |
| INEGI Code | 007 |
| Major Airport | Cancún Internaitional Airport |
| IATA Code | CUN |
| ICAO Code | MMUN |
| Website | Offeecial Steid |
| Municipalities o Quintana Roo | |
It is namit efter Lázaro Cárdenas who wis Preses o Mexico frae 1934 tae 1940.
Commonties
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The municipality is made up o 82 populatit localities (localidades), as well as 81 unpopulatit localities. The lairgest localities (ceeties, touns, an veelages) are:[2]
| Name | 2010 Census Population |
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| Kantunilkín | 7,150 |
| Ignacio Zaragoza | 2,213 |
| Holbox | 1,486 |
| Chiquilá | 1,466 |
| Nuevo Valladolid | 1,294 |
| Nuevo Xcán | 1,130 |
| El Tintal | 1,074 |
| San Ángel | 1,041 |
| El Ideal | 818 |
| Solferino | 799 |
| San Francisco | 767 |
| El Cedral | 752 |
| Tot Municipality | 25,333 |
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Ignacio Zaragoza -
Nuevo Valladolid -
Nuevo X-Can -
El Tintal
Ither commonties
eedit- Nuevo Durango (pop. 225)
Orografie an hydrografie
eeditLik maist o the Yucatan Peninsula Lázaro Cárdenas is entirely flat wi a gentle slope towards the sea, sae frae wast tae east.
Lik the rest o the peninsula's surface the laund haes a limestane base that daes no allou the formation o surface watter flows such as rivers an streams, the watter insteid forms flows in unnergrund rivers that whiles rise tae the surface in the cenotes. Lochs an cenotes are the major bouks o watter in the municipality.
References
eedit- ↑ a b El municipio de Lázaro Cárdenas Archived 2015-02-15 at the Wayback Machine Official Site.
- ↑ a b "2010 census tables: INEGI". Archived frae the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.