Tenabo | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Campeche |
Pushpin Map: | Mexico |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 10665 |
Population Note: | municipal seat |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Area Total Km2: | 1058.42 |
Elevation M: | 10 |
Leader Title: | Municipal president |
Leader Name: | Julio Cesar Sánchez Caamal (2006–09) |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipal seat |
Subdivision Name2: | Tenabo |
Blank Name: | Encomienda |
Blank Info: | 1549 |
Blank1 Name: | Municipality created |
Blank1 Info: | 1786 |
Blank2 Name: | City status |
Blank2 Info: | 1960 |
Timezone: | CST |
Utc Offset: | −6 |
Utc Offset Dst: | −5 |
Coordinates: | 19.8333°N -90°W |
Website: | www.tenabo.gob.mx |
Tenabo (Yucatec Maya: "place where they measure by hand-spans") is one of the 13 municipalities in the Mexican state of Campeche. It is situated on the coast in the north of the state. The municipal seat, and largest settlement, is the city of Tenabo, 36 km from state capital Campeche, Camp. As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 10,665.
The municipality of Tenabo borders to the north with Hecelchakán Municipality, to the east with Hopelchén Municipality, to the south with Campeche Municipality, and to the west with the Gulf of Mexico.
It covers 882 km2, accounting for 1.5% of the state's total surface area.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 9,736.[1]
As of 2010, the city of Tenabo had a population of 7,543.[1] Other than the city of Tenabo, the municipality had 90 localities, none of which had a population over 1,000.[1]