| 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.
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]
| Municipal president | width=90px | Term | width=130px | Political party | width=190px | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfonso González Ojeda[4] | 1972–1974 | |||||
| Jorge Santa Ana González | 1975–1977 | PRI | ||||
| Francisco Cardoza Macías | 1978–1980 | PRI | ||||
| Matías Amador Moyrón | 1981–1983 | PRI | ||||
| J. Enrique V. Ortega Romero | 1984–1986 | PRI | ||||
| José Carlos Cota Osuna | 1987–1989 | PRI | ||||
| Antonio Wilson González | 1990–1993 | PRI | ||||
| Adán Rufo Velarde | 1993–1996 | |||||
| Leonel Cota Montaño | 1996–1998 | PRI | ||||
| Ramón Donato Ojeda Carrillo | 1998–1999 | PRI | Acting municipal president | |||
| Alfredo Porras Domínguez | 1999–2002 | Democratic and Labor Coalition | ||||
| Víctor Manuel Guluarte Castro | 2002–2005 | |||||
| Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío | 2005–2008 | Sudcalifornian Democratic Coalition (Coalición Democrática Sudcaliforniana) | ||||
| Rosa Delia Cota Montaño | 2008–2011 | Coalition for the Good of Sudcalifornia | ||||
| Esthela Ponce Beltrán | 2011–2014 | Coalition "United for BCS" | ||||
| Francisco Javier Monroy Sánchez | 2014–2015 | Coalition "United for BCS". Acting municipal president | ||||
| Armando Martínez Vega | 2015–2018 | |||||
| Rubén Gregorio Muñoz Álvarez | 2018–2021 | |||||
| Milena Paola Quiroga Romero[5] | 2021– | Morena |