Kanasín Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Yucatán containing (72.81 km2) of land and located roughly 5 km east of the city of Mérida.

Yucatán is a state in southeastern Mexico that is divided into 106 municipalities, organized into 7 administrative regions. According to the 2020 Mexican census, it is the twenty-second most populated state with 2,320,898 inhabitants and the 20th largest by land area spanning 39,524.4 square kilometres (15,260.5 sq mi).