Lázaro Cárdenas () is one of the
eleven municipalities that make up the
Mexican state
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of
Quintana Roo
Quintana Roo ( , ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Quintana Roo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Quintana Roo), is one of the 31 states which, with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico. It is divided into 11 mu ...
. Its municipal seat is the town of
Kantunilkín, which was founded on 10 October 1859.
[ Its borders are, to the west, the municipalities of Tizimín and ]Chemax
Chemax, the Mayan word meaning "tree of monkeys", is a town located in the east of Yucatán State, Mexico. It is from 1918, the head of Chemax Municipality
Chemax Municipality (, in the Yucatec Maya Language: “monkey's tree”) is one of the ...
in the state of Yucatán
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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 long ...
and Benito Juárez
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, and to the south Solidaridad
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.
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
* Lázaro (footballer, born 1990), full name Lázaro Vinícius Alves Martins, Brazilian footballer
* Lázaro (footballer, born 2002), f ...
who was President of Mexico
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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 ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...
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 cave, pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater. The regional term is specifically associated with the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where cenotes were commonly ...
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:[
Ignacio Zaragoza QR.JPG, Ignacio Zaragoza
Nuevo Valladolid QR.JPG, Nuevo Valladolid
Nuevo X-Can QR.JPG, Nuevo X-Can
El Tintal QR.JPG, El Tintal
]
Demographics
References
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Municipalities of Quintana Roo