Ensenada (municipality)

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Ensenada
—  Municipality  —
Camp on the beach NW of Punta Colonet, Baja California.
Camp on the beach NW of Punta Colonet, Baja California.
Location of Ensenada in Baja California.
Location of Ensenada in Baja California.
Country Mexico
State Baja California
Municipal seat Ensenada
Largest city Ensenada
Municipality established December 29, 1953[1]
Government
 - Municipal president Pablo Alejo Lopez (PAN)
Area
 - Total 51,952.3 km² (20,058.9 sq mi)
Population (2005)
 - Total 413,481
 - Density 8/km² (20.6/sq mi)
  Data source: INEGI
Time zone PST (UTC-8)
 - Summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
INEGI code 001
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
Website: (Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada

The municipality (Spanish: municipio) of Ensenada, with a land area of 51,952.26 km² (20,058.88 sq mi), is the largest in the state of Baja California and the largest in Mexico by area, and comparable in size to San Bernardino County, California, the largest county in the United States outside Alaska. It contains all of Baja California apart from a strip at the north and, at the northeast extremity of the state, the municipality of Mexicali. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Sea of Cortez on the east, and by all of the other municipalities in Baja California on the North. Its municipal seat (Spanish: cabecera municipal) is Ensenada. Its current (as of 2007) municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) is César Mancillas Amador of the PAN. A major port is planned to be built in Punta Colonet, a largely uninhabited area 80 km (50 miles) south of the city of Ensenada. Offshore, Guadalupe Island is part of the municipality.

In 2000 the municipality had a population of 370,730 inhabitants. The 2005 census recorded 413,481 inhabitants.


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[edit] Subdivisions

Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 24 boroughs (Spanish: delegaciones), of which Ensenada and Chapultepec form the city of Ensenada, the municipal seat:

  1. La Misión
  2. El Porvenir
  3. Francisco Zarco (Guadalupe)
  4. Real del Castillo
  5. El Sauzal
  6. Ensenada, municipal seat (Spanish: cabecera municipal)
  7. San Antonio de las Minas
  8. Chapultepec
  9. Maneadero (with subdelegación Esteban Cantú)
  10. Santo Tomás
  11. Eréndira
  12. San Vicente
  13. Valle de la Trinidad
  14. Punta Colonet
  15. Camalú
  16. Vicente Guerrero
  17. San Quintín
  18. El Rosario
  19. Puertecitos
  20. El Marmol
  21. Punta Prieta
  22. Bahía de los Angeles
  23. Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
  24. Isla de Cedros

[edit] Major communities

The 2005 census lists 1,567 populated places (localidades) within the municipality, but this includes solitary ranches and houses with a population of just a few or even only one person. 418 places have a population of 10 or more, and 120 have a population of 100 or more. The largest places are, with population figures as of census 2005:

Place Population
Ensenada 260,075
Maneadero (Rodolfo Sánchez T.) 15,814
Lázaro Cárdenas 14,779
Vicente Guerrero 10,632
El Sauzal 8,641
Camalú 6,009
El Zorrillo (Colonia Benito García)       5,072
San Quintín 5,021
Emiliano Zapata 4,682

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ (Spanish) pp. 78–79, La Transformación de Baja California en Estado, 1931–1952, Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen, Estudios Fronterizos, 1, #1 (Jan-June 2000), UABC, Mexicali, pp. 47–87.

[edit] External links

Baja California
Mexicali, capital
Municipalities

Ensenada | Mexicali | Tecate | Tijuana | Playas de Rosarito
Cities

Ensenada | Mexicali | Playas de Rosarito | Tecate | Tijuana
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