Hopelchén

Hopelchén
City and municipal seat
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Coordinates: 19.7444°N 89.8453°W / 19.7444; -89.8453
Country	Mexico
State	Campeche
Municipality	Hopelchén
Government
• Municipal president	Hebert Rafael Infante Yeh(2009-2012)
Population  (2010[1])
• Total	7,295
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central (US Central))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (Central)
Spanish foundation	1621
City status	26 February 1959
Website	www.municipiohopelchen.gob.mx

Hopelchén (IPA: [xopelˈtʃen], Yucatec Maya: "place of five wells") is a city in the Mexican state of Campeche. It is situated inland in the north of the state. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding Hopelchén Municipality. In 2010, Hopelchén had a population of 7,295.^[2]

In 2019, around 1,400 Mennonites were reported to be living in the nearby state Nuevo Leon and in and around Hopelchén.^[3][4]

References

1. 2010 census tables: INEGI Archived May 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
2. "Hopelchén". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Archived from the original on 30 September 2021. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
3. Strochlic, Nina (12 April 2019). "An Unlikely Feud Between Beekeepers and Mennonites Simmers in Mexico". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
4. "Mennonites Colony of Hopelchen, Mexico". Youtube.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved July 5, 2019.

• Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• Hopelchén^{[dead link‍]} Official Website of Cityhall

External links

• Municipio de Hopelchén from official Campeche state government website (in Spanish)
• Ich-Ek