Ensenada Municipality

The municipality () o Ensenada, wi a land aurie o , taks up the majority o the state o Baja California. It is the lairgest in Mexico bi aurie an the Americas.  It contains aw o Baja California apairt frae a strip at the north an, at the northeast extremity o the state, the municipality o Mexicali.  It is bordered bi the Paceefic Ocean on the wast, the Sea o Cortez on the east, an bi aw o the ither municipalities in Baja California on the north.  Its municipal seat () is Ensenada , which lees near the northwast corner o the municipality, awtho amaist aw o the municipality's territory lees far tae its sootheast. Its current () municipal preses () is Pablo Alejo López Núñez o the PAN.  A major port is planned tae be biggit in Punta Colonet, a lairgely uninhabitit aurie  sooth o the ceety o Ensenada. Locatit affshore, Guadalupe Island is pairt o the municipality, makkin Ensenada the wastmaist municipality o Laitin Americae.

In 2010 the municipality haed a population o 466,814 indwallers.  The 2005 census recordit 413,481 indwallers.

Subdiveesions
Ensenada municipality is admeenistratively subdividit intae 26 burghs (), o which Ensenada an Chapultepec form the ceety o Ensenada, the municipal seat:
La Mision - Borough seat: La Misión
El Porvenir
Francisco Zarco (Guadalupe)
Real del Castillo
El Sauzal
Ensenada - Burgh seat: Ensenada, municipal seat ()
San Antonio de las Minas
Chapultepec
Maneadero (wi subdelegación Esteban Cantú)
Santo Tomás
Erendira - Burgh seat: Eréndira
San Vicente
Ojos Negros
Primo Tapia
Valle de la Trinidad
Punta Colonet - Burgh seat: Punta Colonet
Camalu - Burgh seat: Camalú
Vicente Guerrero
San Quintin - Burgh seat: San Quintín
El Rosario - Burgh seat: El Rosario
Puerecitos - Burgh seat: Puertecitos
El Marmol
Punta Prieta - Burgh seat: Punta Prieta
Bahía de los Angeles
Calmallí (Villa Jesús María)
Isla de Cedros

Major commonties
The 2010 census leets 1,709 populatit places (localidades) athin the municipality, but this includes solitary ranches an hooses wi a population o juist a few or even anerlie ane person. Thare wur 476 places that haed a population o 10 or mair, an 120 hae a population o 100 or mair. Thare wur an additional 1,216 unpopulatit localities enumeratit. The lairgest places are, wi population figurs as o 2010:

 Name  2010 Census Population Ensenada  279,765 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 Tot Municipality  466,814

See an aw
 Additional Information  
Punta Colonet, Baja California

Notes

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

Freemit airtins
 Ayuntamiento de Ensenada  Offeecial govrenment wabsteid.
 Property frenzy in Baja California, Diane Lindquist, San Diego Union-Tribune, Apryle 24, 2006.  Article on planned port construction at Punta Colonet.

Category:Municipalities o Baja California
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