Campeche

Campeche (Spaingie pronunciation: [kamˈpetʃe]), offeecially Free an Sovereign State o Campeche (Spaingie: Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche), is ane o the 31 states which, wi the Federal Destrict, comprise the 32 Federal Entities o Mexico. Locatit in Sootheast Mexico, it is bordered bi the states o Yucatán tae the north east, Quintana Roo tae the east, an Tabasco tae the sooth wast. To the south it is bordered bi the Petén department o Guatemala, tae the east by Belize an tae the wast bi the Guwf o Mexico. The state caipital, cried Campeche, wis declared a Warld Heritage Steid in 1997. The formation o the state began wi the ceety, which wis foondit in 1540 as the Spainyie began the conquest o the Yucatán Peninsulae. Durin the colonial period, the ceety wis a rich an important port, but declined efter Mexico’s Unthirldom. Campeche wis pairt o the state o Yucatán but split aff in the mid-19t century, maistly due tae poleetical friction wi the ceety o Mérida. The day, hintle o the state’s economic comeback is due tae the fyndin o petroleum affshore in the 1970s, which haes made the coastal ceeties o Campeche an Ciudad del Carmen important economic centers. The state haes important Mayan an colonial steids but they are no as weel kent or visitit as ithers in the Yucatán. References Freemit airtins Yucatan Today - The leadin tourist guide tae Merida an Yucatan - airticle aboot Campeche Archived 2009-01-31 at the Wayback Machine (in Spaingie) Campeche State Govrenment (in Spaingie) Instituto de Cultura Archived 2012-02-25 at the Wayback Machine