Isla Mujeres (Spanish for Women Island) is one of the ten municipalities of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The municipality, located in the northeastern corner of the state is mostly on the mainland and has a municipal seat of the same name; Isla Mujeres. The municipal seat is a small island town a short distance off the northeast coast of the Yucatán Peninsula in the Caribbean Sea about 13 km northeast of Cancún. It is the easternmost municipal seat in Mexico. The island is some 7 km long and 650 m wide. In the 2010 census, the town had a population of 12,642 inhabitants.The largest localities (cities, towns, and villages) are: