Ensenada Municipality, Baja California

Ensenada Municipality Municipio de Ensenada
—  Municipality  —
Camp on the beach NW of Punta Colonet, Baja California.
Coat of arms
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	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 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 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^[update]) municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) is Pablo Alejo López Núñez of the PAN. 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

Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 26 boroughs (Spanish: delegaciones), of which Ensenada and Chapultepec 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 - Borough seat: Ensenada, municipal seat (Spanish: cabecera municipal)
7. San Antonio de las Minas
8. Chapultepec
9. Maneadero (with subdelegación Esteban Cantú)
10. Santo Tomás
11. Erendira - Borough seat: Eréndira
12. San Vicente
13. Ojos Negros
14. Primo Tapia
15. Valle de la Trinidad
16. Punta Colonet - Borough seat: Punta Colonet
17. Camalu - Borough seat: Camalú
18. Vicente Guerrero
19. San Quintin - Borough seat: San Quintín
20. El Rosario - Borough seat: El Rosario
21. Puerecitos - Borough seat: Puertecitos
22. El Marmol
23. Punta Prieta - Borough seat: Punta Prieta
24. Bahía de los Angeles
25. Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
26. Isla de Cedros

Major communities

The 2010 census lists 1,709 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. There were 476 places that had a population of 10 or more, and 120 have a population of 100 or more. There were an additional 1,216 unpopulated localities enumerated. The largest places are, with population figures as of 2010:^[2]

Name	2010 Census Population
Ensenada	279,765
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
Total Municipality	466,814

See also

• Additional Information [1]
• Punta Colonet, Baja California

Notes

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.
2. ^ 2010 census tables: INEGI

References

• Ensenada: Its background, founding, and early development http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84winter/ensenada.htm
• (Spanish) Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• (Spanish) Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal
• (Spanish) Subdivisions (delegaciones)

External links

• (Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada Official government website.
• (English) Property frenzy in Baja California, Diane Lindquist, San Diego Union-Tribune, April 24, 2006. Article on planned port construction at Punta Colonet.

Coordinates: 30°15′N 115°15′W / 30.25°N 115.25°W / 30.25; -115.25