title: Bacalar Municipality
text: # Bacalar Municipality
  
  Bacalar is one of the ten municipalities of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The municipal seat and most populous town is the eponymous Bacalar. The municipality was formed on February 2, 2011, when it separated from the Municipality of Othón P. Blanco.
  
  ## Major communities
  
  The 2010 census enumerated 57 populated localities.
  
  | Name | 2010 Census Population |
  | - | - |
  | Bacalar | 11,048 |
  | Limones | 2,535 |
  | Maya Balam | 2,018 |
  | Pedro Antonio Santos | 497 |
  | Total municipality | 32,759 |
  