Bacalar
Bacalar | |
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City and municipality | |
Left to right: San Felipe de Bacalar Fort · Kiosk · Natural cenote · San Joaquín parish · Monumental letters · View of Laguna de los Siete Colores | |
Bacalar in Quintana Roo Bacalar (Mexico) | |
| Coordinates: 18°40′34″N 88°23′22″W / 18.6761467°N 88.3893528°W | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Quintana Roo |
| Municipality | Bacalar |
| Population (2020) | |
• Total | 12,572 |
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.