Hecelchakán Municipality

Hecelchakán (Spanish pronunciation: [xeseltʃaˈkan]) is one of the 13 municipalities in the Mexican state of Campeche.The municipality covers an area of 1,331.99 km² (514.284 sq mi) and includes numerous smaller outlying communities, the largest of which is the town of Pomuch.The name comes from the Yucatec Maya words jeʼelel (rest) and chakʼan (savanna).[1] Other than the city of Hecelchakán, the municipality had 80 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Pomuch (8,694), classified as urban, and Pocboc (1,624), Cumpich (1,587), Campo Menonita Yalnón (1,151), and Santa Cruz (1,118), classified as rural.51 approved a new law of interior administration, Hecelchakán became one of the eight free municipalities of the new state of Campeche.
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