Municipalities of Baja California

Baja California is a state in Northwest Mexico that is divided into five municipalities.[1]. According to the 2015 Mexican Intercensal Survey, Baja California is the 13th most populous state with 3,315,766 inhabitants and the 12th largest by land area spanning 73,290.08 square kilometres (28,297.46 sq mi).[1][2]

Map of Mexico with Baja California highlighted
Municipalities of Baja California

Municipalities in Baja California are administratively autonomous of the state according to the 115th article of the 1917 Constitution of Mexico.[3] Their legal framework derives from Title VI of the state Constitution[4] and the state's 2001 Law of the Municipal Regime.[5] Every three years, citizens elect a municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) by a plurality voting system who heads a concurrently elected municipal council (ayuntamiento) responsible for providing public services for their constituents.[4] The municipal council consists of a variable number of trustees and councillors (regidores y síndicos) who govern from the municipal seat.[6] Municipalities are responsible for public services (such as water and sewerage), street lighting, public safety, traffic, supervision of slaughterhouses and the maintenance of public parks, gardens and cemeteries.[7] They may also assist the state and federal governments in education, emergency fire and medical services, environmental protection and maintenance of monuments and historical landmarks. Since 1984, they have had the power to collect property taxes and user fees, although more funds are obtained from the state and federal governments than from their own income.[7] Municipalities may establish functional and geographical subdivisions called delegaciones and subdelegaciones[8] in accordance with Article 29 of the Law of the Municipal Regime.[5]

The largest municipality by population in Baja California and second largest in Mexico is Tijuana with 1,641,570 residents, representing around half (49.5%) of the population of the state. The smallest municipality by population is Playas de Rosarito with 96,734 residents.[1] Ensenada, which spans 53,199.79 km2 (20,540.55 sq mi), is the largest municipality by area in the state and in the country. Playas de Rosarito is the smallest municipality by area spanning 500.67 km2 (193.31 sq mi).[2] The first municipality to incorporate was Ensenada on May 15, 1882 and the newest municipality is San Quintín which separated from Ensenada and incorporated February 12, 2020.[9][10]

Municipalities
  • Municipalities in Baja California
  • Downtown Tijuana, Baja California's most populous, and most population-dense, municipality
  • Mexicali, state capital and second largest municipality by population in Baja California
  • The port of Ensenada, Baja California's largest municipality by area
  • Aerial view of Tecate, the fourth largest municipality by population in Baja California
  • Beach in Playas de Rosarito, the smallest by land area and least populous municipality in Baja California

State capital

Name Municipal seat Population
(2015)[1][11]		 Population
(2010)[12]		 Change Land area[2] Population density
(2015)		 Incorporation date[9]
km2 sq mi
Ensenada Ensenada 486,639 466,814 +4.2% 53,199.79 20,540.55 9.1/km2 (23.7/sq mi) May 15, 1882
Mexicali Mexicali 988,417 936,826 +5.5% 15,665.22 6,048.38 63.1/km2 (163.4/sq mi) November 20, 1914
Playas de Rosarito Rosarito 96,734 90,668 +6.7% 500.67 193.31 193.2/km2 (500.4/sq mi) July 21, 1995
San Quintín[lower-alpha 1] San Quintín NA February 12, 2020[10]
Tecate Tecate 102,406 101,079 +1.3% 2,688.89 1,038.19 38.1/km2 (98.6/sq mi) March 11, 1917
Tijuana Tijuana 1,641,570 1,559,683 +5.3% 1,235.51 477.03 1,328.7/km2 (3,441.2/sq mi) March 11, 1917
Baja California — 3,315,766 3,155,070 +5.1% 73,290.08 28,297.46 45.2/km2 (117.2/sq mi) —
Mexico[13] — 119,938,473 112,336,538 +6.8% 1,972,550 761,606 60.8/km2 (157.5/sq mi) —

Notes
  1. San Quintín was created from the Ensenada Municipality Debruary 12, 2020 and thus does not appear in the 2015 or 2010 censuses.[10]

References
  1. "Número de habitantes". INEGI (National Institute of Statistics and Geography). Archived from the original on 2017-07-17. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  2. "Unidad de Microrregiones Cédulas de Información Municipal (SCIM)" (in Spanish). Secretaría de Desarrollo Social. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
  3. "Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos". Article 115,  of 1917 (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  4. "Constitución Política del Estado Libre y Sobrerano de Baja California". Title VI, Act of January 19, 2018 (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-26. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  5. "Ley del Régimen Municipal para el Estado de Baja California" (PDF) (in Spanish). Baja California State Congress. November 10, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 26, 2018. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  6. OECD (November 12, 2004). New Forms of Governance for Economic Development. OECD Publishing. p. 121. ISBN 978-9-2640-1532-6. Archived from the original on 2017-12-01. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  7. Mexico Company Laws and Regulations Handbook. International Business Publications. 2009. p. 42. ISBN 978-1-4330-7030-3. Archived from the original on 2017-07-29. Retrieved 2017-07-29.
  8. Polo Martínez, Humberto (November 2012). Administración pública comunitaria y gobierno local en México: Las autoridades auxiliares municipales (PDF) (in Spanish). National Institute of Public Administration. p. 114. ISBN 978-607-9026-26-4. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-01-02. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  9. Estado de Baja California. División Territorial de 1810 a 1995 (PDF) (in Spanish). Mexico: INEGI. 1996. pp. 65–66. ISBN 978-970-13-1487-6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-01-06. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  10. Matias, Erik (February 12, 2020). "San Quintín será sexto municipio de Baja California". www.elfinanciero.com.mx (in Spanish). El Financiero. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  11. "Tabulados de la Encuesta Intercensal 2015" (xls) (in Spanish). INEGI. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  12. "Localidades y su población por municipio según tamaño de localidad" (PDF) (in Spanish). INEGI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-07-30. Retrieved July 15, 2017.
  13. "Población" (in Spanish). INEGI. Archived from the original on 2018-01-21. Retrieved January 20, 2018.

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