Mexicali Municipality
Mexicali Municipality is a municipality (Spaingie: municipio) in the Mexican state o Baja California. Its municipal seat (Spaingie: cabecera municipal) is locatit in the ceety o Mexicali. Accordin tae the 2010 census, it haed a population o 956,826 inhabitants, an accordin tae the 2000 census, it haed 764,602 inhabitants, which means an increase o 22.5%. The municipality haes an aurie o 13,700 km² (5,300 sq mi.) This includes mony smawer ootlyin commonties as well as the ceety o Mexicali. An aw, the islands o Baja California locatit in the Guwf o Californie are pairt o the municipality, amang them the mudflat islands at the mooth o the Colorado River (the lairgest ane being Montague Island), Isla Ángel de la Guarda an the islands o the San Lorenzo Marine Archipelago National Park. Mexicali is the northmaist municipality o Laitin Americae.
Mexicali Municipality Municipio de Mexicali | |
|---|---|
 Coat airms | |
| Motto(s): Tierra Cálida (Inglis: Wairm Land) | |
 Location o Mexicali in Baja California. | |
| Kintra | Mexico |
| State | Baja California |
| Municipal seat | Mexicali |
| Lairgest ceety | Mexicali |
| Municipality established | 29 December 1953[1] |
| Govrenment | |
| • Municipal preses | Francisco Perez Tejada (PRI) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 13700 km2 (5,300 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 956,826 |
| • Density | 70/km2 (180/sq mi) |
| Data source: INEGI | |
| Time zone | UTC−8 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−7 (PDT) |
| INEGI code | 002 |
| Website | (in Spaingie) Ayuntamiento de Mexicali |
| Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México | |
The ceety o Mexicali wis foondit in 1903, an its name is a portmanteau o Mexico an California, as is the name o Calexico, Californie athort the border. This is an unusual pair o border ceeties in that Mexicali, on the Mexican side, is far lairger than Calexico, on the U.S. side.
Burghs
eeditThe municipality o Mexicali, is dividit intae 14 admeenistrative burghs (Spaingie: delegaciones) o which the ceety o Mexicali occupies 3 beside the ceety proper aurie; aw burghs are in turn dividit intae colonias or ejidos. These burghs affer admeenistrative services such as urban plannin, ceevil registry, inspection, verification, public wirks an commonty development an are servit bi a delegado.
The burghs o Mexicali Municipality ceety are:
- Los Algodones, locatit in the Valley Zone.
- Bátaquez, locatit in the Valley Zone.
- Cerro Prieto, locatit in the Urban Zone, is pairt o the Mexicali metropolitan aurie.
- Venustiano Carranza, locatit in the Valley Zone.
- Ciudad Morelos, informally kent as Cuervos, locatit in the Valley Zone.
- Colonias Nuevas, informally kent as Km 57, locatit in the Valley Zone.
- Progreso, locatit in the Urban Zone, is pairt o the Mexicali metropolitan aurie.
- Ejido Hermosillo, locatit in the Valley Zone.
- Estación Delta, locatit in the Valley Zone.
- Guadalupe Victoria, informally kent as Km 43, located in the Valley Zone.
- González Ortega, informally kent as Palaco, locatit in the Urban Zone, is pairt o the Mexicali metropolitan aurie.
- Hechicera, locatit in the Valley Zone.
- San Felipe, locatit in the Coastal Zone, tae the sooth on the Guwf o Californie.
- Benito Juárez, informally kent as Tecolotes, locatit in the Valley Zone.
The umwhile burgh (delegación) o Compuertas is locatit in the eastren pairt o the ceety o Mexicali.
Ceeties an touns
eeditTouns an veelages
eeditThe lairgest localities (ceeties, touns, an veelages) are:[2]
| Name | 2010 Census Population |
|---|---|
| Mexicali | 689,775 |
| Santa Isabel | 29,311 |
| Ciudad Guadalupe Victoria (Kilómetro Cuarenta y Tres) | 17,119 |
| San Felipe | 16,702 |
| Puebla | 15,168 |
| Progreso | 12,557 |
| Ciudad Morelos (Cuervos) | 8,243 |
| Colonia Venustiano Carranza (La Carranza) | 6,098 |
| Ciudad Coahuila (Kilómetro Cincuenta y Siete) | 5,617 |
| Vicente Guerrero (Los Algodones) | 5,474 |
| Delta (Estación Delta) | 5,180 |
| Ejido Hermosillo | 5,101 |
| Benito Juárez (Ejido Tecolotes) | 4,167 |
| Nuevo León | 3,655 |
| Poblado Paredones | 3,332 |
| Michoacán de Ocampo | 3,086 |
| Ejido Hechicera | 2,517 |
| Viñas del Sol | 2,509 |
| Ejido Sinaloa (Estación Kasey) | 2,505 |
| Ejido Lázaro Cárdenas (La Mosca) | 2,463 |
| Poblado Lázaro Cárdenas (La Veintiocho) | 2,388 |
| Ejido Quintana Roo | 2,311 |
| Total Municipality | 936,826 |
Adjacent municipalities an coonties
eedit- San Luis Río Colorado Municipality, Sonora - east
- Ensenada Municipality - sooth an soothwast
- Tecate Municipality - wast
- Imperial Coonty, Californie - north
- Yuma Coonty, Arizona - northeast
See an aw
eeditReferences
eedit- ↑ (in Spaingie) pp. 78–79, La Transformación de Baja California en Estado, 1931–1952 Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen, Estudios Fronterizos, 1, #1 (January–June 2000), UABC, Mexicali, pp. 47–87.
- ↑ "2010 census tables: INEGI". Archived frae the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 25 Julie 2012.
- (in Spaingie) Link to tables of population data from the 2005 Census, INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática.
- (in Spaingie) Mexicali Archived 2012-04-14 at the Wayback Machine, Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México Archived 2014-11-18 at the Wayback Machine, Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal, SEGOB. Accessed on line November 15, 2007.
- (in Spaingie) Ubicación Geográfica, Mexicali government web site. Describes subdivisions of Mexicali.
Freemit airtins
eedit- (in Spaingie) Ayuntamiento de Mexicali, offeecial govrenment wab steid.
- (in Inglis)/(in Spaingie) Mexicali Tourism Guide Archived 2008-03-19 at the Wayback Machine