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Ensenada Municipality Municipio de Ensenada | |
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 Camp on the beach NW o Punta Colonet, Baja California. | |
 Location o Ensenada in Baja California. | |
| Country | Mexico |
| State | Baja California |
| Municipal seat | Ensenada |
| Lairgest ceety | Ensenada |
| Municipality established | December 29, 1953[1] |
| Govrenment | |
| • Municipal president | Pablo Alejo Lopez (PAN) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 52482.4 km2 (20,263.6 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 466,814 |
| • Density | 8.9/km2 (23/sq mi) |
| Data source: INEGI 2010 Census | |
| Time zone | UTC−8 (PST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−7 (PDT) |
| INEGI code | 001 |
| Website | (in Spaingie) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada |
| Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México | |
The municipality (Spaingie: municipio) o Ensenada, wi a land aurie o 52,482.40 km2 (20,263.57 sq mi), 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 (Spaingie: cabecera municipal) is Ensenada 31°51′28″N 116°36′21″W / 31.85778°N 116.60583°W, which lees near the northwast corner o the municipality, awtho amaist aw o the municipality's territory lees far tae its sootheast. Its current (as o 2012[update]) municipal preses (Spaingie: presidente municipal) is Pablo Alejo López Núñez o the PAN. A major port is planned tae be biggit in Punta Colonet, a lairgely uninhabitit aurie 80 km (50 mi) 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.
- ↑ (in Spaingie) pp. 78–79, La Transformación de Baja California en Estado, 1931–1952 Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen, Estudios Fronterizos, 1, #1 (January–June 2000), UABC, Mexicali, pp. 47–87.