Progreso is a
port city in the Mexican
state of
Yucatán, located on the
Gulf of Mexico in the north-west of the state some 30 minutes north of state capital
Mérida (the biggest city on the
Yucatán Peninsula) by highway. As of the Mexican census of 2010, Progreso had an official population of 37,369 inhabitants, the sixth largest community in the state in population. The city is also the municipal seat of the surrounding
municipality of the same name. The municipality's area is and its population at the census was 49,454 inhabitants. It includes
Scorpion Reef with its
five islets 130 km offshore (north) on the outer edge of
Campeche Bank. Its largest other towns are
Chicxulub, Campestre Flamboyanes, and
Chelem.