Lázaro Cárdenas, Quintana Roo

Lázaro Cárdenas
Municipality
Kantunil Kin central plaza Kantunil Kin central plaza
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Country	[[{{#property:P17}}]]
State	[[{{#property:P131}}]]
Named for	[[{{#property:P138}}]]
Municipal seat	Kantunilkín
Government
• Municipal President	Clementino Angulo Cupul
Area
• Municipality	3,881 km2 (1,498 sq mi)
Elevation	20 m (70 ft)
Population ()
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• Urban	7,150
Time zone	Central Standard Time (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	Central Daylight Time (UTC-5)
INEGI Code	23007
Website	{{#property:P856}}

Lázaro Cárdenas (Spanish <phonos file="LazaroCardenas Pronunciation.ogg">[ˈlasaɾo ˈkardenas]</phonos>) is one of the ten municipalities that make up the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. 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 in the state of Yucatán, to the east the municipalities of Isla Mujeres and Benito Juárez, and to the south Solidaridad.

It is named after Lázaro Cárdenas del Río who was President of Mexico 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 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 cenotes. 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:

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Map of Lazaro Cardenas, Municipality

Name	Population (2010 Census)
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
Total municipality	25,333

Other communities:

• Nuevo Durango (pop. 225)

• 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

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1995	18,307	—
2000	20,411	+2.20%
2005	22,434	+1.91%
2010	25,333	+2.46%
Source: INEGI Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía