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Ensenada Municipality

Municipio de Ensenada
Municipality
Municipality of Ensenada
The Pacific coast of Ensenada Municipality
The Pacific coast of Ensenada Municipality
Coat of arms of Ensenada Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Ensenada in Baja California in 2020
Location of Ensenada in Baja California in 2020
Country Mexico
State  Baja California
Municipal seat Ensenada
Largest city Ensenada
Municipality established 29 December 1953
Area
 • Total 19,526.8 km2 (7,539.3 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total 443,807
 • Density 22.72810/km2 (58.86550/sq mi)
Time zone UTC−8 (Northwest (US Pacific))
 • Summer (DST) UTC−7 (Northwest)
INEGI code 001
Website Ayuntamiento de Ensenada
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

The municipality (Spanish: municipio) of Ensenada is the fourth-largest municipality in Mexico with a land area of 19,526.8 km2 (7,539.3 sq mi) in 2020, about the same size as Hidalgo state and larger than five Mexican states.

Located offshore, Cedros Island and Guadalupe Island are part of the municipality, making Ensenada the westernmost municipality in Mexico and Latin America.

Incorporated on May 15, 1882 as the northern partido of the Baja California Territory, it became a municipality of the state of Baja California on December 29, 1953.

The municipality shares borders with every other municipality in the state: Tijuana, Playas de Rosarito and Tecate to the north, Mexicali and San Felipe to the east and southeast and San Quintín to the south. Its municipal seat is Ensenada, a port lying near the northwest corner of the municipality.

Ensenada's current (as of 2020) municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) is Armando Ayala Robles. 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.

In February 2020, San Quintín separated from Ensenada and became Baja California's sixth municipality. Prior to this, Ensenada was the country's largest municipality. In January 2022, San Felipe separated from Ensenada and became Baja California's seventh municipality, further reducing the size of Ensenada Municipality.

Subdivisions

First Camp NW of Colonet
Camp on the beach NW of Punta Colonet
División administrativa del Municipio de Ensenada
Administrative divisions of Ensenada Municipality, covering more territory than some Mexican states, with a section scheduled to be spun off in 2016 as San Quintín Municipality, nevertheless, entrenched poverty, insecurity and human rights violations have raised questions and may delay administrative change.

Territorially massive Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 23 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. Ensenada
  7. San Antonio de las Minas
  8. Maneadero
  9. Santo Tomás
  10. Erendira - Borough seat: Eréndira
  11. San Vicente
  12. Valle de la Trinidad
  13. Punta Colonet - Borough seat: Punta Colonet
  14. Camalu - Borough seat: Camalú
  15. Vicente Guerrero
  16. San Quintin - Borough seat: San Quintín
  17. El Rosario - Borough seat: El Rosario
  18. Puertecitos - Borough seat: Puertecitos
  19. El Marmol
  20. Punta Prieta - Borough seat: Punta Prieta
  21. Bahía de los Ángeles
  22. Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
  23. Isla de Cedros

Demographics

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

As of 2010, the city of Ensenada had a population of 279,765. 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:

  • Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (Maneadero) (22,957)
  • Lázaro Cárdenas (16,294)
  • Vicente Guerrero (11,455)
  • El Sauzal de Rodríguez (8,832)
  • Camalú (8,621)
  • Benito García (El Zorrillo) (6,598)
  • Emiliano Zapata (5,756)
  • San Quintín (4,777)
  • San Vicente (4,362)
  • Colonia Lomas de San Ramón (Triquis) (3,805)
  • Real del Castillo Nuevo (Ojos Negros) (3,533)
  • Ejido Papalote (3,413)
  • Lázaro Cárdenas (Valle de la Trinidad) (3,366)
  • Ejido México (Punta Colonet) (3,278)
  • Colonia Nueva Era (3,256)
  • Rancho Verde (2,758)
  • Francisco Zarco (Valle de Guadalupe) (2,664)
  • Santa Fe (2,632)

Classified as rural:

  • Luis Rodríguez (El Vergel) (2,281)
  • Colonia Benito Juárez (1,933)
  • Ejido Profesor Graciano Sánchez (1,856)
  • El Rosario de Arriba (1,704)
  • Salvador Rosas Magallón (1,520)
  • Ejido Eréndira (1,461)
  • Poblado Chulavista (El Chorizo) (1,442)
  • El Porvenir (Valle de Guadalupe) (1,416)
  • Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1,394)
  • Colonia Gómez Morín (1,362)
  • Isla de Cedros (1,339)
  • Poblado Héroes de Chapultepec (1,260)
  • Santa María (Los Pinos) (1,255)
  • La Providencia (1,253)
  • Ejido General Leandro Valle (1,174)
  • Ejido Francisco Villa (San Simón) (1,151)
  • Las Brisas (1,078)
  • Fraccionamiento del Valle (1,052)
  • Pueblo Benito García (1,028)

See also

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