Lázaro Cárdenas () is one of the eleven municipalities that make up the

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. Its municipal seat is the town of

Kantunilkín Kantunilkín is the municipal seat and largest city in Lázaro Cárdenas in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo Quintana Roo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo, is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, consti ...

, which was founded on 10 October 1859. Its borders are, to the west, the municipalities of

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and

Chemax Chemax, the Mayan word meaning "tree of monkeys", is a town located in the east of Yucatán State, Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and b ...

in the state of

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, to the east the municipalities of

Isla Mujeres Isla Mujeres (, Spanish for "Women Island", formally “''Isla de Mujeres''”) is an island where the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea meet, about off the Yucatán Peninsula coast in the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is approximately ...

and

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, and to the south Solidaridad. It is named after

Lázaro Cárdenas del Río Lázaro is a Spanish or Portuguese-based given name or surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Lazaro (footballer) (born 1977), Lazaro Paulo de Sousa, Brazilian football striker *Lázaro (footballer, born 1990), full name Lázaro ...

who was

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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 Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

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

cenote A cenote ( or ; ) is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting when a collapse of limestone bedrock exposes groundwater. The term originated on the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where the ancient Maya commonly used cenotes for water supplies, and ...

s. 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:2010 census tables: INEGI
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Demographics

References

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