Progreso

a city in Yucatán, southwestern Mexico, on the Gulf of Mexico. Population, 22,000 (1970). The chief port of the Yucatán Peninsula, Progreso serves the city of Mérida, with which it is linked by highway and railroad. Henequen (fiber obtained from the leaves of an agave that is grown in the Mérida region) and the products processed from it are exported. There is fishing.