Ensenada Municipality

Ensenada Municipality Municipio de Ensenada
Municipality
Municipality of Ensenada
The Pacific coast of Ensenada Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Ensenada in Baja California
Coordinates: 30°00′N 115°30′W / 30°N 115.5°WCoordinates: 30°00′N 115°30′W / 30°N 115.5°W
Country	Mexico
State	Baja California
Municipal seat	Ensenada
Largest city	Ensenada
Municipality established	December 29, 1953[1]
Government
• Municipal president	Gilberto Antonio Hirata Chico (PRI)
Area
• Total	52,482.4 km^2 (20,263.6 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	466,814
• Density	8.9/km^2 (23/sq mi)
	Data source: INEGI 2010 Census
Time zone	PST (UTC−8)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC−7)
INEGI code	001
Website	(Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

The municipality (Spanish: municipio) of Ensenada, with a land area of 52,482.40 km² (20,263.57 sq mi), takes up the majority of the state of Baja California. It is the largest municipality in Mexico and in the Americas by area. 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 Gulf of California on the east, and by all of the other municipalities in Baja California on the North. Its municipal seat (Spanish: cabecera municipal) is Ensenada (31°51′28″N 116°36′21″W / 31.85778°N 116.60583°W), which lies near the northwest corner of the municipality, although almost all of the municipality's territory lies far to its southeast. Its current (as of 2009) municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) is Enrique Pelayo Torres. A major port is planned to be built in Punta Colonet, a largely uninhabited area 80 km (50 mi) south of the city of Ensenada. Located offshore, Guadalupe Island is part of the municipality, making Ensenada the westernmost municipality of Latin America.

In 2010 the municipality had a population of 466,814 inhabitants. The 2005 census recorded 413,481 inhabitants.

Subdivisions

Camp on the beach NW of Punta Colonet

Administrative divisions of Ensenada Municipality, covering more territory than some Mexican states, with a section scheduled to be spun off in 2016 as San Quintín Municipality, nevertheless, entrenched poverty, insecurity and human rights violations have raised questions and may delay administrative change.

Territorially massive Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 23 boroughs (Spanish: delegaciones), of which Ensenada form the city of 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
7. San Antonio de las Minas
8. Maneadero
9. Santo Tomás
10. Erendira - Borough seat: Eréndira
11. San Vicente
12. Valle de la Trinidad
13. Punta Colonet - Borough seat: Punta Colonet
14. Camalu - Borough seat: Camalú
15. Vicente Guerrero
16. San Quintin - Borough seat: San Quintín
17. El Rosario - Borough seat: El Rosario
18. Puertecitos - Borough seat: Puertecitos
19. El Marmol
20. Punta Prieta - Borough seat: Punta Prieta
21. Bahía de los Ángeles
22. Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
23. Isla de Cedros

Demographics

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 466,814.^[2]

As of 2010, the city of Ensenada had a population of 279,765.^[2] Other than the city of Ensenada, the municipality had 3,245 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were:

Classified as urban:^[2]

• 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)

Classified as rural:^[2]

• Luis Rodríguez (El Vergel) (2,281)
• Colonia Benito Juárez (1,933)
• Ejido Profesor Graciano Sánchez (1,856)
• El Rosario de Arriba (1,704)
• Salvador Rosas Magallón (1,520)
• Ejido Eréndira (1,461)
• Poblado Chulavista (El Chorizo) (1,442)
• El Porvenir (Valle de Guadalupe) (1,416)
• Licenciado Gustavo Díaz Ordaz (1,394)
• Colonia Gómez Morín (1,362)
• Isla de Cedros (1,339)
• Poblado Héroes de Chapultepec (1,260)
• Santa María (Los Pinos) (1,255)
• La Providencia (1,253)
• Ejido General Leandro Valle (1,174)
• Ejido Francisco Villa (San Simón) (1,151)
• Las Brisas (1,078)
• Fraccionamiento del Valle (1,052)
• Pueblo Benito García (1,028)

See also

• Additional Information
• Punta Colonet, Baja California

Notes

1. (Spanish) pp. 78–79, La Transformación de Baja California en Estado, 1931–1952, Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen, Estudios Fronterizos, 1, #1 (January–June 2000), UABC, Mexicali, pp. 47–87.
2. "Ensenada". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.

References

• Ensenada: Its background, founding, and early development http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84winter/ensenada.htm
• (Spanish) Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• (Spanish) Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal
• (Spanish) Subdivisions (delegaciones)

External links

• (Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada Official government website.
• (English) Property frenzy in Baja California, Diane Lindquist, San Diego Union-Tribune, April 24, 2006. Article on planned port construction at Punta Colonet.