Mexicali (municipality)

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Mexicali
—  Municipality  —
Motto: Tierra Cálida
(English: Warm Land)
Location of Mexicali in Baja California.
Location of Mexicali in Baja California.
Country Mexico
State Baja California
Municipal seat Mexicali
Largest city Mexicali
Municipality established December 29, 1953[1]
Government
 - Municipal president Rodolfo Váldez (PAN)
Area
 - Total 13,700 km² (5,289.6 sq mi)
Population (2005)
 - Total 855,962
 - Density 62.5/km² (161.8/sq mi)
  Data source: INEGI
Time zone PST (UTC-8)
 - Summer (DST) PDT (UTC-7)
INEGI code 002
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
Website: (Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Mexicali

Mexicali is a municipality (Spanish: municipio) in the Mexican state of Baja California. Its municipal seat (Spanish: cabecera municipal) is located in the city of Mexicali. According to the 2000 census, it had a population of 764,602 inhabitants, and according to the 2005 census, it had 855,962 inhabitants. The municipality has an area of 13,700 km² (5,300 sq mi.) This includes many smaller outlying communities as well as the city of Mexicali. Also, the islands of Baja California located in the Gulf of California are part of the municipality. Mexicali is the northernmost municipality of Latin America.

The city of Mexicali was founded in 1903, and its name is a portmanteau of Mexico and California, as is the name of Calexico, California across the border. This is an unusual pair of border cities in that Mexicali, on the Mexican side, is far larger than Calexico, on the U.S. side.

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[edit] Boroughs

Apart from the municipal seat of Mexicali, the municipality of Mexicali is administratively subdivided into 14 boroughs (Spanish: delegaciones):

  1. Los Algodones, located in the Valley Zone.
  2. Bátaquez, located in the Valley Zone.
  3. Cerro Prieto, located in the Urban Zone, is part of the Mexicali metropolitan area.
  4. Venustiano Carranza, located in the Valley Zone.
  5. Ciudad Morelos, informally known as Cuervos, located in the Valley Zone.
  6. Colonias Nuevas, informally known as km 57, located in the Valley Zone.
  7. Progreso, located in the Urban Zone, is part of the Mexicali metropolitan area.
  8. Ejido Hermosillo, located in the Valley Zone.
  9. Estación Delta, located in the Valley Zone.
  10. Guadalupe Victoria, informally known as km 43, located in the Valley Zone.
  11. González Ortega, informally known as Palaco, located in the Urban Zone, is part of the Mexicali metropolitan area.
  12. Hechicera, located in the Valley Zone.
  13. San Felipe, located in the Coastal Zone, to the south on the Gulf of California.
  14. Benito Juárez, informally known as Tecolotes, located in the Valley Zone.

The former borough (delegación) of Compuertas is located in the eastern part of the city of Mexicali.

[edit] Major towns

[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

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Cities

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