Campeche

Capital - Other Cities and Attractions

Location: southwest part of the Yucatan peninsula
Area: 5:6114 sq. km
Population: 690:689 inhabitants

Campeche State is located on the southwest part of the Yucatan peninsula where the coastline with the Gulf of Mexico curves from a north-south direction to east-west.

The name of Campeche comes from the Mayan word "Ah-Kim-Pech", which means "The sir sun jigger", but since its pronunciation was difficult for the Spanish, they called it "Kna Pech", which means "Place of snakes and jiggers".

For the ones who would like to been born in the times when pirates conquered places and struggled many fights, it's definitely a good idea to visit the City of Campeche. Because the constant tension of wars, conflicts, alliances between England, France and Holland with Spain and Portugal the people from Campeche were forced to fortify their city by building forts and walls from 1685 to 1704, thus preventing them from taking advantage of their economic development.

Campeche is famous because of its excellent gastronomy such as the bread of dogfish, and the Nac-cum made with red snapper.