Mexicali Municipality

Mexicali Municipality is a municipality () in the Mexican state o Baja California. Its municipal seat () is locatit in the ceety o Mexicali. Accordin tae the 2010 census, it haed a population o 956,826 inhabitants, an accordin tae the 2000 census, it haed 764,602 inhabitants, which means an increase o 22.5%. The municipality haes an aurie o 13,700 km² (5,300 sq mi.)  This includes mony smawer ootlyin commonties as well as the ceety o Mexicali.  An aw, the islands o Baja California locatit in the Guwf o Californie are pairt o the municipality, amang them the mudflat islands at the mooth o the Colorado River (the lairgest ane being Montague Island), Isla Ángel de la Guarda an the islands o the San Lorenzo Marine Archipelago National Park. Mexicali is the northmaist municipality o Laitin Americae.

The ceety o Mexicali wis foondit in 1903, an its name is a portmanteau o Mexico an California, as is the name o Calexico, Californie athort the border.  This is an unusual pair o border ceeties in that Mexicali, on the Mexican side, is far lairger than Calexico, on the U.S. side.

Burghs
The municipality o Mexicali, is dividit intae 14 admeenistrative burghs () o which the ceety o Mexicali occupies 3 beside the ceety proper aurie; aw burghs are in turn dividit intae colonias or ejidos. These burghs affer admeenistrative services such as urban plannin, ceevil registry, inspection, verification, public wirks an commonty development an are servit bi a delegado.

The burghs o Mexicali Municipality ceety are:

Los Algodones, locatit in the Valley Zone.
Bátaquez, locatit in the Valley Zone.
Cerro Prieto, locatit in the Urban Zone, is pairt o the Mexicali metropolitan aurie.
Venustiano Carranza, locatit in the Valley Zone.
Ciudad Morelos, informally kent as Cuervos,  locatit in the Valley Zone.
Colonias Nuevas, informally kent as Km 57,  locatit in the Valley Zone.
Progreso, locatit in the Urban Zone, is pairt o the Mexicali metropolitan aurie.
Ejido Hermosillo, locatit in the Valley Zone.
Estación Delta, locatit in the Valley Zone.
Guadalupe Victoria, informally kent as Km 43, located in the Valley Zone.
González Ortega, informally kent as Palaco, locatit in the Urban Zone, is pairt o the Mexicali metropolitan aurie.
Hechicera, locatit in the Valley Zone.
San Felipe, locatit in the Coastal Zone, tae the sooth on the Guwf o Californie.
Benito Juárez, informally kent as Tecolotes, locatit in the Valley Zone.

The umwhile burgh (delegación) o Compuertas is locatit in the eastren pairt o the ceety o Mexicali.

Ceeties an touns
Touns an veelages
The lairgest localities (ceeties, touns, an veelages) are:
 Name  2010 Census Population Mexicali  689,775 Santa Isabel  29,311 Ciudad Guadalupe Victoria (Kilómetro Cuarenta y Tres)  17,119 San Felipe  16,702 Puebla  15,168 Progreso  12,557 Ciudad Morelos (Cuervos)  8,243 Colonia Venustiano Carranza (La Carranza)  6,098 Ciudad Coahuila (Kilómetro Cincuenta y Siete)  5,617 Vicente Guerrero (Los Algodones)  5,474 Delta (Estación Delta)  5,180 Ejido Hermosillo  5,101 Benito Juárez (Ejido Tecolotes)  4,167 Nuevo León  3,655 Poblado Paredones  3,332 Michoacán de Ocampo  3,086 Ejido Hechicera  2,517 Viñas del Sol  2,509 Ejido Sinaloa (Estación Kasey)  2,505 Ejido Lázaro Cárdenas (La Mosca)  2,463 Poblado Lázaro Cárdenas (La Veintiocho)  2,388 Ejido Quintana Roo  2,311 Total Municipality  936,826

Adjacent municipalities an coonties
 San Luis Río Colorado Municipality, Sonora - east
 Ensenada Municipality - sooth an soothwast
 Tecate Municipality - wast
 Imperial Coonty, Californie - north
 Yuma Coonty, Arizona - northeast

See an aw
Municipalities o Baja California
Baja California

References

 Link to tables of population data from the 2005 Census , INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática.
 Mexicali , Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México , Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal, SEGOB.  Accessed on line November 15, 2007.
 Ubicación Geográfica, Mexicali government web site.  Describes subdivisions of Mexicali.

Freemit airtins
 Ayuntamiento de Mexicali, offeecial govrenment wab steid.
/ Mexicali Tourism Guide 

Category:Municipalities o Baja California
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