Champotón Municipality is a municipality within the state of Campeche, including the city of Champotón and the surrounding area.

In 2010 the municipality of Champotón had a population of 83,021 inhabitants.

It has an areal extent of 6,088.28 km² (2,350.7 sq mi).

The municipality also includes the offshore Cayos Arcas, about 140 km northwest of Campeche and 150 km north of the mainland coast of Champotón.

[2] Other than the city of Champotón, the municipality had 864 localities, such as (with 2010 populations in parentheses): Santo Domingo Kesté (3,763), Carrillo Puerto (2,829), Sihochac (2,731), Ley Federal de Reforma Agraria (2,435), classified as urban, and Xbacab (1,649), San Pablo Pixtún (1,498), Maya Tecún I (1,254), Hool (1,181), La Joya (1,007), and Nayarit Castellot (299).