Ensenada Municipality

The municipality (Spaingie: municipio) o Ensenada, wi a land aurie o 52,482.40 km² (20,263.57 sq mi), taks up the majority o the state o Baja California. It is the lairgest in Mexico bi aurie an the Americas. It contains aw o Baja California apairt frae a strip at the north an, at the northeast extremity o the state, the municipality o Mexicali. It is bordered bi the Paceefic Ocean on the wast, the Sea o Cortez on the east, an bi aw o the ither municipalities in Baja California on the north. Its municipal seat (Spaingie: cabecera municipal) is Ensenada 31°51′28″N 116°36′21″W, which lees near the northwast corner o the municipality, awtho amaist aw o the municipality's territory lees far tae its sootheast. Its current (as o 2012) municipal preses (Spaingie: presidente municipal) is Pablo Alejo López Núñez o the PAN. A major port is planned tae be biggit in Punta Colonet, a lairgely uninhabitit aurie 80 km (50 mi) sooth o the ceety o Ensenada. Locatit affshore, Guadalupe Island is pairt o the municipality, makkin Ensenada the wastmaist municipality o Laitin Americae.

Ensenada Municipality Municipio de Ensenada
Municipality
Camp on the beach NW o Punta Colonet, Baja California.
Location o Ensenada in Baja California.
Country	Mexico
State	Baja California
Municipal seat	Ensenada
Lairgest ceety	Ensenada
Municipality established	December 29, 1953
Govrenment
• Municipal president	Pablo Alejo Lopez (PAN)
Area
• Total	52482.4 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	UTC−8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−7 (PDT)
INEGI code	001
Website	(in Spaingie) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

In 2010 the municipality haed a population o 466,814 indwallers. The 2005 census recordit 413,481 indwallers.

Subdiveesions

Ensenada municipality is admeenistratively subdividit intae 26 burghs (Spaingie: delegaciones), o which Ensenada an Chapultepec form the ceety o 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 - Burgh seat: Ensenada, municipal seat (Spaingie: cabecera municipal)
7. San Antonio de las Minas
8. Chapultepec
9. Maneadero (wi subdelegación Esteban Cantú)
10. Santo Tomás
11. Erendira - Burgh seat: Eréndira
12. San Vicente
13. Ojos Negros
14. Primo Tapia
15. Valle de la Trinidad
16. Punta Colonet - Burgh seat: Punta Colonet
17. Camalu - Burgh seat: Camalú
18. Vicente Guerrero
19. San Quintin - Burgh seat: San Quintín
20. El Rosario - Burgh seat: El Rosario
21. Puerecitos - Burgh seat: Puertecitos
22. El Marmol
23. Punta Prieta - Burgh seat: Punta Prieta
24. Bahía de los Angeles
25. Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
26. Isla de Cedros

Major commonties

The 2010 census leets 1,709 populatit places (localidades) athin the municipality, but this includes solitary ranches an hooses wi a population o juist a few or even anerlie ane person. Thare wur 476 places that haed a population o 10 or mair, an 120 hae a population o 100 or mair. Thare wur an additional 1,216 unpopulatit localities enumeratit. The lairgest places are, wi population figurs as o 2010:

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
Tot Municipality	466,814

See an aw

• Additional Information [1] Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Punta Colonet, Baja California

References

• Ensenada: Its background, founding, an early development http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84winter/ensenada.htm Archived 2008-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Spaingie) Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• (in Spaingie) Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal
• (in Spaingie) Subdivisions (delegaciones) Archived 2006-10-28 at the Wayback Machine

Freemit airtins

• (in Spaingie) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada Archived 2008-05-03 at the Wayback Machine Offeecial govrenment wabsteid.
• (in Inglis) Property frenzy in Baja California, Diane Lindquist, San Diego Union-Tribune, Apryle 24, 2006. Article on planned port construction at Punta Colonet.