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Archive of the Campeche Legislative Power (Archivo del Poder Legislativo Campeche)
Av. Patricio Trueba y de Regil, Number 255
Col. Sector Las Flores
San Francisco de Campeche 24090
Telephon: 52 981 816 5027
Email: filelegislativocamp@gmail.com
Website: Archive of the Campeche Legislative Power

General Archive of the State of Campeche (Archivo General del Estado de Campeche)
Calle 12 núm. 159, entre 57 y 59
Centro Histórico
24000 Campeche
Telephon: 52 981 816 0939
Email: archivo.general@campeche.gob.mx
Website: General Archive of the State of Campeche
Website #2: Archivo General del Estado de Campeche

In about 1685, many Campeche records were destroyed when the pirate Laurent Graff looted the city and the archives of Campeche. Many historical documents of the colonial period were lost. In 1877 the Ayuntamiento secretary, Francisco Alvarez Suárez, began to rescue and organize the documents of the Ayuntamiento (local civil government) and of the state government. He worked for 26 years, from 1877 to 1903; during this time he was able to organize, inventory, and catalog the collection of documents. He also wrote 'Los Anales Históricos de Campeche', a record of the most important happenings of the city of Campeche from 1810 to 1910. From 1904 to 1939, the archive was left abandoned. Much of the collection deteriorated due to neglect. In 1941, the Public Archive of the State was established. Forty years later, in 1981, it was reestablished as the General State Archive. Since that time a permanent initiative to organize and conserve the documents has been carrried out. Today about 4.5 million documents are kept, generated between 1820 and 1992. Of this number, 1.5 million are historical documents of public interest and 3 million are documents generated by the public state administration from 1973 to 1993. This archive includes a photographic collection of more than 40,000 photographs, a collection of the Periódico Oficial del Estado since 1861, and a newspaper archvie with newspapers and magazines circulating since 1975.

Municipal Archive of Campeche (Archivo Municipal de Campeche)
Calle 63 núm 48 entre 16 y 18
Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de Campeche
24000 Campeche
Telephon: 52 981 811 4053
Fax: 816 153
Email: eduardomosqueda_300@hotmail.com
Website: Archivo Municipal de Campeche
Website #2: Municipal Archive, Campeche
Website #3: Historical Archive of the Campeche City Council
Website #4: Municipal File
Website #5: Municipal Archive of Campeche, Campeche