Panabá Municipality

Panabá Municipality is one of the 106 municipalities in the state of Yucatán,Mexico. It is located in the eastern region of the Yucatán Peninsula's northern coast. Panabá is also the name of the municipality's largest township, which is also its municipal seat (cabecera municipal). The municipality is bounded at the north by the municipalities of San Felipe and Rio Lagartos, at the east by Tizimín, at the south by Sucilá and at the west by the municipalities of Dzilam de Bravo and Dzilam González.

The modern Spanish spelling Panabá derives from the place`s name in the Yucatec Maya language, Panab' ha, meaning "[place of] water found by digging". The Maya name combines the verb panab’ "to dig, to excavate" (verbal root pan-) with the noun for "water."

Political Regionalisation

The municipality belongs to the First Federal Electoral District and the Tenth Local Election District.

Foundation

Throughout the colonial period, Panabá was under the jurisdiction of Valladolid through Tizimín. As a result of changes in the peninsula during the nineteenth century Panabá was part of the municipality of Tizimín until 1918.