ENSENADA (MUNICIPALITY)

The ''municipio'' ("municipality") 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 is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Sea of Cortez on the east and on the North by all of the other ''municipios'' in the state. (It covers all towns outside of Tijuana and Mexicali areas). Its ''cabecera'' (municipal seat) is Ensenada. Its current (as of 2005) head of government (''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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Subdivisions

Major communities

See also

References

External links

Subdivisions

Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 24 ''delegaciones'':
#La Misión
#El Porvenir
#Francisco Zarco (Guadalupe)
#Real del Castillo
#El Sauzal
#Ensenada, ''cabecera municipal'' (municipal seat)
#San Antonio de las Minas
#Chapultepec
#Maneadero (with ''subdelegación'' Esteban Cantú)
#Santo Tomás
#Eréndira
#San Vicente
#Valle de la Trinidad
#Punta Colonet
#Camalú
#Vicente Guerrero
#San Quintín
#El Rosario
#Puertecitos
#El Marmol
#Punta Prieta
#Bahía de los Angeles
#Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
#Isla de Cedros

Major communities

The census of population 2005 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:

★ Ensenada 260075

★ Maneadero (Rodolfo Sánchez T.) 15814

★ Lázaro Cárdenas 14779

★ Vicente Guerrero 10632

★ El Sauzal 8641

★ Camalú 6009

★ El Zorrillo (Colonia Benito García) 5072

★ San Quintín 5021

★ Emiliano Zapata 4682

See also

★ Municipalities of Baja California

★ Punta Colonet, Baja California

References

★ Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática

★ Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal

External links

★ Ayuntamiento de Ensenada Official website

★ Information on Punta Colonet

★ Subdivisions (''delegaciones'')