Ensenada Municipality

Ensenada
Municipality
Camp on the beach NW of Punta Colonet, Baja California.
Location of Ensenada in Baja California.
Country	Mexico
State	Baja California
Municipal seat	Ensenada
Largest city	Ensenada
Municipality established	December 29, 1953
Government
• Municipal president	Pablo Alejo Lopez (PAN)
Area
• Total	51,952.3 km2 (20,058.9 sq mi)
Population  (2005)
• Total	413,481
• Density	8.0/km2 (21/sq mi)
	Data source: INEGI
Time zone	UTC-8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
INEGI code	001
Website	Template:Es icon Ayuntamiento de Ensenada
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

The municipality (Spanish: municipio) 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 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. Its current (as of 2007) municipal president (Spanish: 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.

Subdivisions

Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 24 boroughs (Spanish: delegaciones), of which Ensenada and Chapultepec form the city of Ensenada, the municipal seat:

1. La Misión
2. El Porvenir
3. Francisco Zarco (Guadalupe)
4. Real del Castillo
5. El Sauzal
6. Ensenada, municipal seat (Spanish: cabecera municipal)
7. San Antonio de las Minas
8. Chapultepec
9. Maneadero (with subdelegación Esteban Cantú)
10. Santo Tomás
11. Eréndira
12. San Vicente
13. Valle de la Trinidad
14. Punta Colonet
15. Camalú
16. Vicente Guerrero
17. San Quintín
18. El Rosario
19. Puertecitos
20. El Marmol
21. Punta Prieta
22. Bahía de los Angeles
23. Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
24. Isla de Cedros

Major communities

The 2005 census 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:

Place	Population
Ensenada	260,075
Maneadero (Rodolfo Sánchez T.)	15,814
Lázaro Cárdenas	14,779
Vicente Guerrero	10,632
El Sauzal	8,641
Camalú	6,009
El Zorrillo (Colonia Benito García)	5,072
San Quintín	5,021
Emiliano Zapata	4,682

See also

• Municipalities of Baja California
• Punta Colonet, Baja California

References

• Template:Es icon Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• Template:Es icon Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal
• Template:Es icon Subdivisions (delegaciones)

External links

• Template:Es icon Ayuntamiento de Ensenada Official government website.
• Template:En icon Property frenzy in Baja California, Diane Lindquist, San Diego Union-Tribune, April 24, 2006. Article on planned port construction at Punta Colonet.