CAMPECHE, a southern State of Mexico, comprising the western part of the peninsula of Yucatan, bounded north and east by Yucatan south by Guatemala, south-west by Tabasco and north-west by the Gulf of Mexico. Pop. (193o) 84,872, mostly Indians and mestizos. Area, 19,672 sq.m. The name of the State is derived from its principal forest product, polo de campeche (logwood). The surface, like that of Yucatan, consists of a vast limestone plain, broken by a group of low elevations in the north, heavily forested in the south, but with open tracts in the north adapted to grazing. The northern part is insufficiently watered, the rains filtering quickly through the soil. In the south, however, there are some large rivers, and the forest region is very humid. The climate is hot and unhealthy. In the north-west angle of the state is the Laguna de Terminos, a large tide-water lake, which receives the drainage of the southern districts. Among the products and exports are logwood, fustic, lignum-vitae, mahogany, cedar, hides, tortoiseshell and chicle, the last ex tracted from the zapote chico trees (Achras sapota, L.) . Stock raising engages some attention. One railway crosses the State from the capital, Campeche, to Merida, Yucatan, and there are several other short lines. The rivers of the south are much used in the transportation of products. The port of Carmen (pop. in 1900, about 6,000), on a sand key between the Laguna de Ter minos and the Gulf, has an active 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.