# Panabá Municipality

Panabá Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán. It is located in the eastern region of the Yucatán Peninsula's northern coast. Panabá is also the name of the municipality's largest township, which is also its municipal seat (cabecera municipal). The municipality borders San Felipe and Rio Lagartos to the north, Tizimín to the east, Sucilá to the south and the municipalities of Dzilam de Bravo and Dzilam González to the west.
The modern Spanish spelling Panabá derives from the placename in the Yucatec Maya language, Panab' ha, meaning "[place of] water found by digging". The Mayan name combines the verb panab’ "to dig, to excavate" (verbal root pan-) with the noun for "water".

## Political regionalisation

The municipality belongs to the First Federal Electoral District and the Tenth Local Election District.

## Foundation

Pre-Columbian ruins have been discovered on a site in the village of Panabá showing that this place was inhabited during the pre-Hispanic period by Indians in the province of Domes.
Throughout the colonial period, Panabá was under the jurisdiction of Valladolid through Tizimín. As a result of changes in the peninsula during the nineteenth century Panabá was part of the municipality of Tizimín until 1918.

## Ethnic groups

The population of indigenous language (Yucatec Maya) speakers (5 years and over) is 2,465 people.

## Demographic trends

According to the Census of Population and Housing made in June 2010 by the INEGI, the total population of the municipality was 7,461 people, of whom 3,718 are male and 3,713 are female. The total population of the town represents 0.32 per cent of the total population of the state.

## Climate

Climate data for Panabá :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 30.2 (86.4) | 30.4 (86.7) | 31.8 (89.2) | 33.0 (91.4) | 33.1 (91.6) | 33.2 (91.8) | 32.9 (91.2) | 33.6 (92.5) | 32.5 (90.5) | 31.6 (88.9) | 30.8 (87.4) | 31.0 (87.8) | 32.0 (89.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 14 (57) | 15.3 (59.5) | 17 (63) | 18.0 (64.4) | 18.6 (65.5) | 19.5 (67.1) | 19.8 (67.6) | 19.8 (67.6) | 19.6 (67.3) | 18.4 (65.1) | 16.4 (61.5) | 14.8 (58.6) | 17.6 (63.7) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 41 (1.6) | 38 (1.5) | 43 (1.7) | 33 (1.3) | 89 (3.5) | 150 (5.9) | 140 (5.5) | 160 (6.4) | 200 (8) | 120 (4.7) | 51 (2) | 51 (2) | 1,120 (44.1) |
| Source: Weatherbase ||||||||||||||

## Education, health and housing

The town has 4 levels of schools: preschool, primary, secondary and high school. There is a library located in the headquarters. A literacy campaign made by the National Institute for Adult Education (INEA) succeeded in increasing literacy in the municipality. In 1980, there was 663 people counted as illiterate and by 1986 this number was reduced to 136. According to the 2010 census, the literacy rate for people between 15 and 24 years of age was 97.2%.
One medical unit of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) is found in Panabá, in addition to private care.
Typical housing in the region is constructed from wooden posts with wattle and daub walls (locally known as bajareques) and roofed with Huan, (long narrow plant leaves), however most are built with concrete blocks, cement, wood and sheet-metal.