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Lázaro Cárdenas, Quintana Roo

Lázaro Cárdenas
Municipality
Kantunil Kin central plaza
Kantunil Kin central plaza
Flag of Lázaro Cárdenas
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Official logo of Lázaro Cárdenas
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Location of Lázaro Cárdenas in Quintana Roo
Location of Lázaro Cárdenas in Quintana Roo
Lázaro Cárdenas is located in Mexico
Lázaro Cárdenas
Lázaro Cárdenas
Location within Mexico
Coordinates: 21°06′N 87°29′W / 21.100°N 87.483°W / 21.100; -87.483Coordinates: 21°06′N 87°29′W / 21.100°N 87.483°W / 21.100; -87.483
Country Mexico
State Quintana Roo
Named for Lázaro Cárdenas
Municipal seat Kantunilkín
Government
 • Municipal President Clementino Angulo Cupul
Area
 • Municipality 3,881 km2 (1,498 sq mi)
Elevation 20 m (70 ft)
Population (2010)
 • Municipality 25,333±0
 • Urban 7,150
Time zone Central Standard Time (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) Central Daylight Time (UTC-5)
INEGI Code 23007
Website www.lazarocardenas.gob.mx

Lázaro Cárdenas (Spanish About this sound [ˈlasaɾo ˈkardenas] ) 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.

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.


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