Ciudad del Carmen Campeche Mexico Photography
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Ciudad del Carmen is a city in the south west of the Mexican state of
Campeche. Ciudad del Carmen is located at 18°38′N 91°50′W / 18.63°N 91.83°W /
18.63;
-91.83 on the south west of Carmen Island, which stands in the Laguna de
Términos on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The 2005 census population was
154,197 people. In July 2006 Ciudad del Carmen celebrated its 150th anniversary
as a city.
The city is nicknamed "The Pearl of the Gulf". Ciudad del Carmen was a small
city mostly devoted to fishing until the 1970s when oil was discovered in the
region; since then it has grown and developed substantially. To this day Carmen
is known as one of the best locations to find seafood in Mexico. As late as the
early 1980s the city could long be reached only by ferry boats called "pangas";
this changed with the construction of a causeway bridge to the mainland in the
1980s and another one in 1994 before the term of President Carlos Salinas de
Gortari ended. The construction of the first bridge was motivated by the sinking
of one of the island's pangas which resulted in the death of nearly everyone
on-board. The bridge Puente El Zacatal, constructed in 1994, is one of the
longest in Latin America.
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-91.83 on the south west of Carmen Island, which stands in the Laguna de
Términos on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The 2005 census population was
154,197 people. In July 2006 Ciudad del Carmen celebrated its 150th anniversary
as a city.
