| Mexicali Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Municipio de Mexicali |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Baja California |
| Motto: | Tierra Cálida (Warm Land) |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 1,049,792 |
| Population Note: | Data source: [1] |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Area Total Km2: | 13700 |
| Leader Title: | Municipal president |
| Leader Name: | Norma Alicia Bustamante Martínez |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipal seat |
| Subdivision Name2: | Mexicali |
| Subdivision Type3: | Largest city |
| Subdivision Name3: | Mexicali |
| Blank Name: | INEGI code |
| Blank Info: | 002 |
| Timezone: | Northwest (US Pacific) |
| Utc Offset: | −8 |
| Timezone Dst: | Northwest |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −7 |
| Established Title: | Municipality established |
| Established Date: | 29 December 1953[2] |
| Website: | Ayuntamiento de Mexicali |
| Footnotes: | Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México |
Mexicali Municipality is a municipality (Spanish; Castilian: link=no|municipio) in the Mexican state of Baja California. Its municipal seat (Spanish; Castilian: link=no|cabecera municipal) is located in the city of Mexicali. As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 1,049,792.[3] The municipality has an area of . This includes many smaller outlying communities as well as the city of Mexicali. Also, the islands of Baja California located in the Gulf of California are part of the municipality, among them the mudflat islands at the mouth of the Colorado River (the largest one being Montague Island), Isla Ángel de la Guarda and the islands of the San Lorenzo Marine Archipelago National Park. Mexicali is the northernmost municipality of Latin America.
The city of Mexicali was founded in 1903, and its name is a portmanteau of Mexico and California, as is the name of Calexico, California across the border.
Mexicali has more than 180 maquiladoras, and the rapid growth of the city has outstripped the capacity of its sewage system.[4]
Mexico and the United States spent $91 million upgrading Mexicali's sewers in recent decades, but funding has dropped in the 2010s.
Las Arenitas wastewater plant opened in 2007 south of Mexicali, greatly improving water quality, particularly bacteria levels. However the overburdened sewer system began periodically dumping raw sewage into the river, resulting in spikes in bacterial levels.
In 2016 the Mexicali Public Service Commission took over regulation of wastewater discharge from the Environmental Protection Department of the state of Baja California, increasing oversight.
In 2009 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill creating the New River Improvement Project. Funding was approved in 2016 for a scaled-down project that would encase the river in a pipe underground and reroute it away from Calexico.
The municipality of Mexicali is divided into 14 administrative boroughs (Spanish; Castilian: link=no|delegaciones) of which the city of Mexicali occupies three beside the city proper area; all boroughs are in turn divided into colonias or ejidos. These boroughs offer administrative services such as urban planning, civil registry, inspection, verification, public works and community development and are served by a delegado.
The boroughs of Mexicali Municipality city are:
The former borough (delegación) of Compuertas is located in the eastern part of the city of Mexicali.
As of 2020, the municipality of Mexicali had a population of 1,049,792.[5] Other than the city of Mexicali, the municipality had 2,553 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Santa Isabel (29,311), Ciudad Guadalupe Victoria (Kilómetro Cuarenta y Tres) (17,119), San Felipe (16,702), Puebla (15,168), Progreso (12,557), Ciudad Morelos (Cuervos) (8,243), Colonia Venustiano Carranza (La Carranza) (6,098), Ciudad Coahuila (Kilómetro Cincuenta y Siete) (5,617), Vicente Guerrero (Algodones) (5,474), Delta (Estación Delta) (5,180), EJido Hermosillo (5,101), Benito Juárez (Ejido Tecolotes) (4,167), Batáquez (3,758), Nuevo León (3,655), Poblado Paredones (3,332), Michoacán de Ocampo (3,086), Ejido Hechicera (2,517), Viñas del Sol (2,509), Ejido Sinaloa (Estación Kasey) (2,505), classified as urban, and Ejido Lázaro Cárdenas (La Mosca) (2,463), Poblado Lázaro Cárdenas (La Veintiocho) (2,388), Ejido Quintana Roo (2,311), Islas Agrarias Grupo A (1,979), Ejido Jiquilpan (1,681), Ejido Plan de Ayala (1,654), Ejido Yucatán (1,628), Ejido Durango (1,593), Ejido Saltillo (1,560), Ejido Pátzcuaro (1,513), Ejido Sonora (1,507), Nayarit Llamada (1,486), Ejido Vicente Guerrero (1,463), Ejido Veracruz Dos (1,446), Ejido Colima 1 (1,379), Colonia José María Rodríguez Mérida (La Panga) (1,275), Rincones del Puebla (1,175), Ejido Netzahualcóyotl (1,064), Ejido Toluca (1,060), Islas Agrarias Grupo B (1,054), Estación Pescaderos (Kilómetro Treinta y Nueve) (1,051), Ejido Tabasco (1,029), Veracruz Uno (1,023), and Ejido Doctor Alberto Oviedo Mota (El Indiviso) (1,009), classified as rural.[6]