Bacalar

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.