Campeche state

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Campeche is the name of both a state in Mexico and its capital city. This article is about the state. For the city, see: Campeche, Campeche; for the Puerto Rican artist, see José Campeche.
Campeche

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Location within Mexico
Location within Mexico
Country  Mexico
Capital Campeche
Municipalities 11
Largest City San Francisco de Campeche
Government
 - Governor Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez (PRI)
 - Federal Deputies PRI:2
 - Federal Senators PRI:2
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Area
Ranked 18th
 - State 50812 km  (0 sq mi)
Population (2005)
 - State 754,730 (Ranked 30th)
HDI (2004) 0.8189 - high
Ranked 9th
ISO 3166-2 MX-CAM
Postal abbr. Camps.
Website: Campeche State Government


The State of Campeche is a state in the south-east region of the Mexican Republic. It is bordered by the Mexican states of Yucatán to the north east, Quintana Roo to the east, and Tabasco to the south west. To the south it is bordered by the Petén department of Guatemala and to the west by the Gulf of Mexico.

The area of Campeche is  km ( sq mi), and the population was only 754,730 inhabitants at the 2005 census. This makes Campeche one of the states with the lowest population densities in Mexico (fifth behind Baja California Sur, Durango, Sonora, and Chihuahua).

The capital city of the state is the city of San Francisco de Campeche, which was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

In addition to the city of Campeche, the state of Campeche includes the cities of Champotón, Ciudad del Carmen, and Escárcega, the towns of Bolonchén, Calkiní, Dzitbalché, Hecelchakán, Hopelchén, Lerma, Tenabo, and Sabancuy, and many ruins of the Maya civilization such as Becán, Calakmul, Silvituc, Dzibilnocac, Edzná, Hocchob, Holactún, Rio Bec, Uxul, Xicalango, Xpujil, and Xtampak.

Campeche derives from the name of the Mayan city of Kan pech, which became today's San Francisco de Campeche.

Major communities

Demographics

  • Inhabitants: 754,730
  • Age Average: 24 years.
  • Annual Population Growth: 1.46%
  • Population at the Capital: 216,900.
  • Population that speaks a native tongue: 89,000.
  • Population that does not speak Spanish: 3,140
Data from the II Conteo de Población y Vivienda 2000, INEGI.

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States of Mexico
Aguascalientes Baja California Baja California Sur Campeche Chiapas Chihuahua Coahuila Colima Durango Distrito Federal Guanajuato Guerrero Hidalgo Jalisco Mxico Michoacn Morelos Nayarit Nuevo Len Oaxaca Puebla Quertaro Quintana Roo San Luis Potos Sinaloa Sonora Tabasco Tamaulipas Tlaxcala Veracruz Yucatn Zacatecas


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State Party  Mexico
Type Cultural
Criteria ii, iv
Reference 895
Region Latin America and the Caribbean

Inscription History
Inscription 1999  (23rd Session)
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Motto
Latin: Joannes Est Nomen Eius
Spanish: Juan es su nombre
(English: "John is his name")
Anthem
"La Borinqueña"
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José Campeche (1751-1809), was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Campeche is the first known Puerto Rican artist and considered by many as one of the best rococo artists in the Americas.
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Anthem
Himno Nacional Mexicano


Capital
(and largest city) Mexico City

Official languages Spanish (
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State Party  Mexico
Type Cultural
Criteria ii, iv
Reference 895
Region Latin America and the Caribbean

Inscription History
Inscription 1999  (23rd Session)
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Municipalities (municipios in Spanish) are the second-level administrative division in Mexico (where the first-level administrative division is the estado, or state). There are 2,438 municipalities in Mexico.
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City Population (est. 2002)
México, DF (Mexico City) 8,548,639
Ecatepec de Morelos, México 1,969,858
Guadalajara, Jalisco 1,651,417
Tijuana, Baja California 1,465,649
Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua 1,440,025
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Jorge Carlos Hurtado Valdez (born March 22, 1949) is a Mexican politician and current governor of Campeche. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he took office on September 16, 2003.
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Anthem
Himno Nacional Mexicano


Capital
(and largest city) Mexico City

Official languages Spanish (
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Yucatán

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Location within Mexico
Country  Mexico
Capital Mérida
Municipalities 106
Government
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Quintana Roo

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Location within Mexico
Country  Mexico
Capital Chetumal
Municipalities
Largest City Cancún
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Tabasco

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Location within Mexico
Country  Mexico
Capital Villahermosa
Municipalities 17 in 4 zones
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Petén is a department of the nation of Guatemala. It is geographically the northernmost department of Guatemala, as well as the largest in size — at 12,960 square miles (33,566 km²) it accounts for about one third of Guatemala's area. The capital is Flores.
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Motto
Unofficial: "El País de la Eterna Primavera" 
"Land of Eternal Spring"
Official: "Libre Crezca Fecundo"
"Grow Free and Fertile"
Anthem
Himno Nacional de Guatemala
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Baja California Sur

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Municipalities of Baja California Sur
Country  Mexico
Capital La Paz
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