Campeche | |
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Country | Mexico |
State | Campeche |
Municipal seat | San Francisco de Campeche |
Area | |
• Total | 3,244.17 km2 (1,252.58 sq mi) |
Population (2015) | |
• Total | 283,025 |
• Density | 87/km2 (230/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC−6 (CST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
Campeche is one of the 13 municipalities in the Mexican state of Campeche. The municipal seat, and largest settlement, is the city of San Francisco de Campeche (often shortened to Campeche).
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 259,005. [1]
The municipality had 565 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: San Francisco de Campeche (220,389), Lerma (8,281), Chiná (5,194), classified as urban, and Los Laureles (2,251), Alfredo V. Bonfil (2,060), Pich (1,756), Tikinmul (1,663), Imí (1,227), Hampolol (1,123), Castamay (1,101), and San Francisco Kobén (1,045), classified as rural. [1]
San Francisco de Campeche, 19th c., also known simply as Campeche, is a city in Campeche Municipality in the Mexican state of Campeche, on the shore of the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico. Both the seat of the municipality and the state's capital, the city had a population of 220,389 in the 2010 census, while the municipality had a population of 259,005.
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Campeche, Mexico.