Municipio La Paz (Baja California Sur)
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Baja California Sur | |
| Seat | La Paz | |
| surface | 15,868.5 km² | |
| Residents | 251,871 (2010) | |
| density | 15.9 inhabitants per km² | |
| Website | www.lapaz.gob.mx | |
| INEGI no. | 03003 | |
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| Presidente municipal | Rubén Gregorio Muñoz Álvarez | |
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Coordinates: 24 ° 0 ′ N , 110 ° 0 ′ W
La Paz is a municipality in the south of the Mexican state Baja California Sur . The community had 251,871 inhabitants at the 2010 census, its area amounts to almost 15,900 km². The main town and largest city in the municipality is La Paz of the same name .
geography
The municipality of La Paz is located in the south of the state of Baja California Sur at an altitude of up to 2,000 m and is one entirely to the physiographic province of the peninsula Baja California . Half of the geology of the municipality is composed of sedimentary rock (especially sandstone ) with around 17% extrusive rock , around 14% alluvion and around 12% intrusive rock . The predominant soil types are the Regosol (42%) and the Leptosol (29%). A good 80% of the community area is covered by scrub, around 16% are forested.
The municipality borders in the north on the municipality Comondú , in the east on the Gulf of California , in the south on the municipality Los Cabos and in the west on the Pacific . The municipality includes several islands in the Gulf of California, including Isla San José , Isla Espíritu Santo and Isla Cerralvo .
population
According to the 2010 census, the municipality has 251,871 inhabitants in around 70,000 residential units. Of these, 2,509 people were registered as speakers of an indigenous language , including 794 speakers of Mixtec and 599 speakers of Nahuatl . About 2.3% of the population were illiterate. 114,212 inhabitants were registered as economically active, of which approx. 64% were men and 4.4% were unemployed. 2.8% of the population lived in extreme poverty.
Localities
The municipality of La Paz comprises 1044 inhabited localidades , of which the INEGI classifies Todos Santos, El Centenario and El Manchón as urban in addition to the main town . Eight towns had a population of over 1000 in the 2010 census, 1008 towns had fewer than 100 inhabitants. The biggest places are:
| place | population |
| La Paz | 215.178 |
| Todos Santos | 5,148 |
| El Centenario | 4,696 |
| El Pescadero | 2,338 |
| Chametla | 2,178 |
| Colonia Calafia | 1,690 |
| Melitón Albáñez Domínguez | 1,588 |
| Los Barriles | 1,174 |
| El Sargento | 958 |
| San Juan de los Planes | 902 |
| General Juan Domínguez Cota | 801 |
| El Cachanilla | 626 |
| El Carrizal | 618 |
| San Pedro | 568 |
Web links
- Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: La Paz (Spanish)
- INEGI : Datos Geográficos: La Paz (Spanish; PDF)
