Campeche, Campeche, Mexico

Last modified: 2002-12-07 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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  1858-1888 (?)
  Ca. 1923-?

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  Quoted by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán October 9, 2001

Accordign to Antropoligist Alberto Ruz Lhuillier, el town of Cam-Pech was founded about the III century A. D. Nearly this town, conquer of Yucatán Francisco de Montejo, founded the town San Francisco de Campeche that was granted a coat of arms and the grade of city in 1777.
Campeche became the most important port and component part of the State of Yucatan until the 1857 civial war that splic the state in two: Campeche (like its new capital city) and Yucatán.
Campeche is famous because of the Colonial heritage: temples, lighthouses, walls, castles, etc.

Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.

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by Ivan Sache, Dec 19, 2001.

Campeche, Campeche (Departamento del Golfo) - Horizontally divided red-yellow.
Ivan Sache, Dec 19, 2001

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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.

Campeche was part of the Departamento del Golfo. The registration flag used about 1923, was white with a Saint George's cross in blue.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, October 06, 2001.