Lázaro Cárdenas Municipality, Quintana Roo

Lázaro Cárdenas is ane o the ten municipalities that mak up the Mexican state o Quintana Roo. Its municipal seat is the toun o Kantunilkín, which wis foondit on 10 October 1859. Its borders are, tae the wast, the municipalities o Tizimín an Chemax in the state o Yucatán, tae the east the municipalities o Isla Mujeres an Benito Juárez, an tae the sooth Solidaridad. It is namit efter Lázaro Cárdenas who wis Preses o Mexico frae 1934 tae 1940. Commonties The municipality is made up o 82 populatit localities (localidades), as well as 81 unpopulatit localities. The lairgest localities (ceeties, touns, an veelages) are: Ither commonties Nuevo Durango (pop. 225) Orografie an hydrografie Lik maist o the Yucatan Peninsula Lázaro Cárdenas is entirely flat wi a gentle slope towards the sea, sae frae wast tae east. Lik the rest o the peninsula's surface the laund haes a limestane base that daes no allou the formation o surface watter flows such as rivers an streams, the watter insteid forms flows in unnergrund rivers that whiles rise tae the surface in the cenotes. Lochs an cenotes are the major bouks o watter in the municipality. References