The municipality (Spanish: "municipio" ) of Ensenada, with a land area of 52,482.40 km2 , 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 (), 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 south of the city of Ensenada.
 Located offshore, Guadalupe Island is part of the municipality, making Ensenada the westernmost municipality of Latin America.
The Baja California Peninsula (English: Lower California Peninsula , Spanish: "Península de Baja California" ) is a peninsula in Northwestern Mexico.
 It separates the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California.
 The peninsula extends 1247 km from Mexicali, Baja California in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur in the south.
 It ranges from 40 km at its narrowest to 320 km at its widest point and has approximately 3000 km of coastline and approximately 65 islands.
 The total area of the Baja California Peninsula is 143390 sqkm .
This is a list of notable coastal islands of the Californias - coastal islands west of California and the Baja California Peninsula in the Pacific Ocean.
 California is in the United States; and the Baja California Peninsula includes the states of Baja California Sur and Baja California in Mexico.
 Although the waters and islands are in two countries, many of the ecoregion, habitat, conservation, and ecological issues are shared.
The Autonomous University of Baja California, (Spanish: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California , or UABC for its initials) is a public university in the Mexican state of Baja California.
 UABC is one of the 43 state universities throughout Mexico as part of the country's state university system.
 The Autonomous University of Baja California headquarters are located in the city of Mexicali at "Av.
 Álvaro Obregón y Julián Carrillo s/n, Edificio de Rectoría, Col. Nueva, C.P. 021100".
The Baja California Desert is a desert ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.
 This ecoregion occupies the western portion of the Baja California peninsula, and occupies most of the Mexican states of Baja California Sur and Baja California.
 It covers 77,700 square kilometers (30,000 square miles).
 The climate is dry, but the close proximity of the Pacific Ocean provides humidity and moderates the temperature.
 The flora mostly consists of xeric shrubs and over 500 species of recorded vascular plants.
Baja California (] ), (English: Lower California ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California (Spanish: "Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California" ), is a state in Mexico.
 It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
 Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California ("El Territorio Norte de Baja California").
 It has an area of 70113 km2 , or 3.57% of the land mass of Mexico and comprises the northern half of the Baja California Peninsula, north of the 28th parallel, plus oceanic Guadalupe Island.
 The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora, the U.S. State of Arizona, and the Gulf of California (also known as the "Sea of Cortez"), and on the south by Baja California Sur.
 Its northern limit is the U.S. state of California.
The Maxwell Land Grant, also known as the Beaubien-Miranda Land Grant, was a 1714765 acre Mexican land grant in Colfax County, New Mexico and part of adjoining Las Animas County, Colorado.
 This 1841 land grant was one of the largest contiguous private landholdings in the history of the United States.
 The New Mexico towns of Cimarron, Colfax, Dawson, Elizabethtown, French, Lynn, Maxwell, Miami, Raton, Rayado, Springer, Ute Park and Vermejo Park, came to be located within the grant, as well as numerous other towns that are now ghost towns.
Rancho Cueros de Venado ("Hides of Deer") was an 1835 land grant in the vicinity of the Pueblo of San Diego of Alta California, and whose site is in present-day Tijuana in Baja California, Mexico.
Tijuana ( ; ] ) is the largest city in Baja California and on the Baja California Peninsula and center of the Tijuana metropolitan area, part of the international San Diego–Tijuana metropolitan area.
 As an industrial and financial center of Mexico, Tijuana exerts a strong influence on economics, education, culture, art, and politics.
 As the city has become a leading center in the country, so has the surrounding metropolitan area, a major industrial and paramount metropolis in northwestern Mexico.
 Currently one of the fastest growing metropolitan areas in Mexico, Tijuana maintains global city status.
 s of 2015 , the city of Tijuana had a population of 1,696,923.
San Telmo is a city in Baja California, Mexico.
 It is a small village situated along the Pacific border of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.
 It is registered within the Licenciado Gustavo Días Ordaz municipality, which is a part of the massive Ensenada municipality of the State of Baja California.
 It is also a part of a region in Baja California called Heroes de Chapultepec —2142 km northwest of Mexico City, the country's capital city.
 San Telmo is also known as El Bramadero.

Question: The largest city in Baja California, Mexico, began as which land grant?
Answer: Rancho Cueros de Venado