Calakmul is a municipality in the Mexican state of Campeche, situated in the central part of the Yucatán Peninsula.

On 19 June 1998, the State Congress enacted legislation creating the new municipality of Candelaria as of 1 July of that year, and Calakmul lost 24% of its population and a portion of its territory.

[1] The languages spoken in Calakmul include Yucatec Maya, Ch'ol, Chontal, Tzotzil, and others.

The municipal seat is the town of Xpujil, a small settlement of 5,729 inhabitants located on Federal Highway 186 as it crosses the base of the peninsula from Escárcega, Campeche, to Chetumal, Quintana Roo.

Maya archaeological sites in the municipality include: Calakmul, Becán, Chicanna, El Hormiguero, Río Bec and Xpuhil.