Everything about Ensenada Municipality totally explained
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:
- La Misión
- El Porvenir
- Francisco Zarco (Guadalupe)
- Real del Castillo
- El Sauzal
- Ensenada, municipal seat (Spanish: cabecera municipal)
- San Antonio de las Minas
- Chapultepec
- Maneadero (with subdelegación Esteban Cantú)
- Santo Tomás
- Eréndira
- San Vicente
- Valle de la Trinidad
- Punta Colonet
- Camalú
- Vicente Guerrero
- San Quintín
- El Rosario
- Puertecitos
- El Marmol
- Punta Prieta
- Bahía de los Angeles
- Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
- 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:
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