Yucatán & the South
Yucatán
Progreso Municipality

Chelem

Chelem is a small beach in Yucatán, Mexico, in the Progreso Municipality. It is near , on the coast north of the state capital of . It is not very large, and consists mostly of small houses and restaurants.
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  • Type: Town with 4,860 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Mexico
  • Also known as: “Chelem de Iturbide” and “Chelen”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chuburná Puerto and Progreso.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 8 km west of Chelem.

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is a city in the state of , , on the Gulf of Mexico on the northwest coast of the . The city was founded in 1811 as a port for exporting sisal fiber from the Yucatán haciendas.

Locality
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, is a small in the state of Yucatán, . It is on the north coast, located 24 km west of the city of inside of the Progreso municipality, about halfway along the road between and Progreso. is situated 9 km west of Chelem.

Chelem

Latitude
21.26875° or 21° 16′ 8″ north
Longitude
-89.74229° or 89° 44′ 32″ west
Population
4,860
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
76HG7795+F3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1604302668
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3531046
Wiki­data ID
Q5765543
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Tatar—“Chelem” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Chelem”
  • Dutch: “Chelem”
  • Serbian: “Челем”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chelem, Progreso”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chelem”
  • Spanish: “Chelem de Iturbide”
  • Spanish: “Chelem”
  • Swedish: “Chelem”
  • Tatar: “Челем”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Parque principal de Chelem and Casa comisarial de Chelem.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Chelem”. Photo: Inri, CC0.