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&nbsp;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:

## 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 , *[http://www.e-local.gob.mx/wb2/ELOCAL/ELOC_Enciclopedia 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