Bacalar

Introduction

Town in Quintana Roo, Mexico For other uses, see Bacalar (disambiguation). You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish.  (April 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Bacalar]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Bacalar}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.Find sources: "Bacalar" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) City and municipality in Quintana Roo, MexicoBacalarCity and municipalityLeft to right: San Felipe de Bacalar Fort · Kiosk · Natural cenote · San Joaquín parish · Monumental letters · View of Laguna de los Siete ColoresBacalar in Quintana RooShow map of Quintana RooBacalar (Mexico)Show map of MexicoCoordinates: 18°40′37″N 88°23′43″W / 18.67694°N 88.39528°W / 18.67694; -88.39528Country MexicoStateQuintana RooMunicipalityBacalarPopulation (2020) • Total12,572 Aerial photograph of Bacalar Lagoon, next to vacation homes Tropical jungle near Bacalar Bacalar (Spanish: [bakaˈlaɾ] ⓘ) is the municipal seat and largest city in Bacalar Municipality (until 2011 a part of Othón P. Blanco Municipality) in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Chetumal. In the 2010 census the city had a population of 11,084. At that time it was still part of Othón P. Blanco, and was its second-largest city (locality), after Chetumal.

Etymology