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CAMPECHE (CAMPEACHY)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 134 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAMPECHE (CAMPEACHY) , a See also:southern See also:state of See also:Mexico, comprising the western See also:part of the See also:peninsula of See also:Yucatan, bounded N. and E. by Yucatan, S. by See also:Guatemala, S.W. by See also:Tabasco and N.W. by that part of the Gulf of Mexico designated on See also:English maps as the See also:Bay of Campeachy. Pop. (1895) 87,264; (1900) 86,542, mostly See also:Indians and mestizos. See also:Area, 18,087 sq. m. The name of the state is derived from its See also:principal See also:forest product, palo de campeche (See also:logwood). The See also:surface, like that of Yucatan, consists of a vast sandy See also:plain, broken by a See also:group of See also:low elevations in the See also:north, heavily forested in the See also:south, but with open tracts in the north adapted to grazing. The See also:northern part is insufficiently watered, the rains filtering quickly through the See also:soil. In the south, however, there are some large See also:rivers, and the forest region is very humid. The See also:climate is hot and unhealthy. In the north-See also:west See also:angle of the state is the See also:Laguna de Terminos, a large See also:tide-See also:water See also:lake, which receives the drainage of the southern districts. Among the products and exports are See also:log-See also:wood, See also:fustic, lignum-vitae, See also:mahogany, See also:cedar, hides, See also:tortoise-See also:shell and chicle, the last extracted from the zapote chico trees (Achras sapota, L.). Stock-raising engages some See also:attention.

One railway crosses the state from the See also:

capital, Campeche, to See also:Merida, Yucatan, but there are no other means of transportation except the rivers and See also:mule-paths. The See also:port of Carmen (pop. in 1900, about 6000), on a See also:sand See also:key between the Laguna de Terminos and the Gulf, has an active See also:trade in dyewoods and other forest products, and owing to its inland water communications with the forest areas of the interior is the principal port of the state and of Tabasco.

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