La Paz Municipality, Baja California Sur Explained

La Paz
Subdivision Type2:Municipal seat and largest city
Leader Name:Milena Paola Quiroga Romero
Unit Pref:Metric
Population As Of:2020
Population Total:292,241
Population Blank1 Title:Seat
Population Blank1:250,141
Population Density Km2:auto
Area Total Km2:33,092.20
Utc Offset:−7
Timezone Dst:Pacific
Utc Offset Dst:−6
Footnotes:Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

La Paz is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Its area of 20275km2 makes it the municipality in Mexico with the fourth-largest area.[1] It had a population of 290,286 inhabitants in the 2015 census.[2] Its municipal seat, also named La Paz, is the state capital.

Demographics

As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 292,241.[3] The city of La Paz had a population of 250,241. Other than the city of La Paz, the municipality had 1,018 localities, the largest of which (with 2020 populations in brackets) were: Todos Santos (7,185 hab.), El Centenario (6,221 hab.), classified as urban, and El Pescadero (4,245 hab.), Chametla (3,045 hab.), Melitón Albáñez Domínguez (2,409 hab.) and Los Barriles (1,674 hab.), classified as rural.[3]

Government

Municipal presidents

Municipal presidentwidth=90pxTermwidth=130pxPolitical partywidth=190pxNotes
Alfonso González Ojeda[4] 1972–1974
Jorge Santa Ana González1975–1977PRI
Francisco Cardoza Macías1978–1980PRI
Matías Amador Moyrón1981–1983PRI
J. Enrique V. Ortega Romero1984–1986PRI
José Carlos Cota Osuna1987–1989PRI
Antonio Wilson González1990–1993PRI
Adán Rufo Velarde1993–1996
Leonel Cota Montaño1996–1998PRI
Ramón Donato Ojeda Carrillo1998–1999PRI Acting municipal president
Alfredo Porras Domínguez1999–2002Democratic and Labor Coalition
Víctor Manuel Guluarte Castro2002–2005
Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío2005–2008Sudcalifornian Democratic Coalition
(Coalición Democrática Sudcaliforniana)
Rosa Delia Cota Montaño2008–2011Coalition for the Good of Sudcalifornia
Esthela Ponce Beltrán2011–2014Coalition "United for BCS"
Francisco Javier Monroy Sánchez2014–2015Coalition "United for BCS". Acting municipal president
Armando Martínez Vega2015–2018
Rubén Gregorio Muñoz Álvarez2018–2021
Milena Paola Quiroga Romero[5] 2021–Morena

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External links

Notes and References

  1. Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial, Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal, SEGOB (Mexico.) Accessed on line 15-II-2008.
  2. Web site: Poblacion Por Municipio, Superficie, Densidad De Poblacion . 2018-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180121071415/http://www.saludbcs.gob.mx/estadistica/Tarjetas%20Estadisticas%20Ejecutivas%202015.pdf . 2018-01-21 . dead .
  3. https://biblioteca.setuesbcs.gob.mx/administrador/biblioteca/publicaciones/pdf/Estrategico_2023_La_Paz.pdf 2020 La Paz Census
  4. Web site: Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Baja California Sur. La Paz. es. 26 January 2022. 6 November 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211106195446/http://www.inafed.gob.mx/work/enciclopedia/EMM03bajacaliforniasur/municipios/03003a.html. dead.
  5. Web site: Instituto Estatal Electoral de Baja California Sur (IEEBCS). Ayuntamientos. Votos. es. 26 January 2022.