Bacalar (Spanish: [bakaˈlaɾ](listen)) 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, at 18° 40' 37" N, 88° 23' 43" W. In the 2010 census the city had a population of 11,084 people.[1] At that time it was still a part of Othón P. Blanco, and was its second-largest city (locality), after Chetumal.
Fortress of San Felipe Bacalar
The name most likely derives from Mayan languages: bʼak halal, meaning "surrounded by reeds",[2] the name of the locality attested at the time of the 16th century arrival of the Spanish.
Bacalar is also the name of the lagoon, Bacalar lagoon on the east side of the town.
Bacalar was a city of the Maya civilization in Pre-Columbian times. This was the first city in the region which the SpanishConquistadores succeeded in taking and holding in 1543 (during the 1543–1544 Pachecos entrada). In 1545 Gaspar Pacheco established the Spanish town here with the name Salamanca de Bacalar with the help of Juan de la Cámara. The region of the southern half of what is now Quintana Roo was governed from Bacalar, answerable to the Captain General of Yucatán in Mérida.
Bacalar Lagoon
Bacalar Lagoon
After the town was sacked by pirates in the 17th century, the Fortress de San Felipe Bacalar was completed in 1729, and may still be visited today.
In 1848 Bacalar had a population of about 5,000 people. In 1848 during the Caste War of Yucatán rebellious Chan Santa Cruz Maya conquered the town. It was not retaken by the Mexicans until 1902.
Between 2005 and 2010 so-called Russian Mennonites who speak German established a colony in Salamanca which had 967 inhabitants in 2010 and 1.175 in 2020. All inhabitants were Protestants and only one of those aged 15 and over was illiterate.[3]
^See entry under "Bak Halal", in Bolles (1997), based on the Cordemex Mayan–Spanish dictionary (Barrera Vásquez et al., 1991).
^Salamanca in Bacalar (Quintana Roo) at www.citypopulation.de
References
Barrera Vásquez, Alfredo (1991). Juan Ramón Bastarrachea Manzano; William Brito Sansores (eds.). Diccionario maya Cordemex: maya-español, español-maya. with collaborations by Refugio Vermont Salas, David Dzul Góngora, and Domingo Dzul Poot (2nd ed.). México D.F.: Editorial Porrúa. ISBN968-452-487-0. OCLC 26611093. (in Spanish and Yucatec Maya)
Bolles, David (1997). "Combined Dictionary–Concordance of the Yucatecan Mayan Language" (revised 2003). Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. (FAMSI). from the original on 31 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
INEGI [Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática] (2005). . II Conteo de Población y Vivienda [2005]. INEGI. Archived from the original (XLS spreadsheet) on 2007-03-28. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
External links
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Bacalar.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bacalar.
Municipio de Bacalar Official website of Bacalar Municipality
Bacalar Mosaico
Ayuntamiento de Othón P. Blanco Official website of Othón P. Blanco Municipality
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