Ensenada Municipality

Ensenada Municipality
Municipio de Ensenada
Municipality

The Pacific coast of Ensenada Municipality

Coat of arms

Location of Ensenada in Baja California
Coordinates: 30°00′N 115°30′W / 30°N 115.5°W / 30; -115.5Coordinates: 30°00′N 115°30′W / 30°N 115.5°W / 30; -115.5
Country  Mexico
State  Baja California
Municipal seat Ensenada
Largest city Ensenada
Municipality established December 29, 1953[1]
Government
 • Municipal president Gilberto Antonio Hirata Chico (PRI)
Area
 • Total 52,482.4 km2 (20,263.6 sq mi)
Population (2010)
 • Total 466,814
 • Density 8.9/km2 (23/sq mi)
  Data source: INEGI 2010 Census
Time zone PST (UTC−8)
 • Summer (DST) PDT (UTC−7)
INEGI code 001
Website (Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

The municipality (Spanish: municipio) of Ensenada, with a land area of 52,482.40 km2 (20,263.57 sq mi), takes up the majority of the state of Baja California. It is the largest in Mexico by area and the Americas. 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 Gulf of California on the east, and by all of the other municipalities in Baja California on the North. Its municipal seat (Spanish: cabecera municipal) is Ensenada (31°51′28″N 116°36′21″W / 31.85778°N 116.60583°W / 31.85778; -116.60583), which lies near the northwest corner of the municipality, although almost all of the municipality's territory lies far to its southeast. Its current (as of 2009) municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) is Enrique Pelayo Torres. A major port is planned to be built in Punta Colonet, a largely uninhabited area 80 km (50 mi) south of the city of Ensenada. Located offshore, Guadalupe Island is part of the municipality, making Ensenada the westernmost municipality of Latin America.

In 2010 the municipality had a population of 466,814 inhabitants. The 2005 census recorded 413,481 inhabitants.

Subdivisions

Camp on the beach NW of Punta Colonet

Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 22 boroughs (Spanish: delegaciones), of which Ensenada form the city of Ensenada, the municipal seat:

  1. La Mision - Borough seat: La Misión
  2. El Porvenir
  3. Francisco Zarco (Guadalupe)
  4. Real del Castillo
  5. El Sauzal
  6. San Antonio de las Minas
  7. Maneadero
  8. Santo Tomás
  9. Erendira - Borough seat: Eréndira
  10. San Vicente
  11. Valle de la Trinidad
  12. Punta Colonet - Borough seat: Punta Colonet
  13. Camalu - Borough seat: Camalú
  14. Vicente Guerrero
  15. San Quintin - Borough seat: San Quintín
  16. El Rosario - Borough seat: El Rosario
  17. Puertecitos - Borough seat: Puertecitos
  18. El Marmol
  19. Punta Prieta - Borough seat: Punta Prieta
  20. Bahía de los Angeles
  21. Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
  22. Isla de Cedros

Demographics

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 466,814.[2]

As of 2010, the city of Ensenada had a population of 279,765.[2] Other than the city of Ensenada, the municipality had 3,245 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:

Classified as urban:[2]

Classified as rural:[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ (Spanish) pp. 78–79, La Transformación de Baja California en Estado, 1931–1952, Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen, Estudios Fronterizos, 1, #1 (January–June 2000), UABC, Mexicali, pp. 47–87.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Ensenada". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.

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