| Ensenada Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Municipio de Ensenada |
| Official Name: | Municipality of Ensenada |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Mexico |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 443807[1] |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Area Total Km2: | 19526.8 |
| Leader Title: | Municipal president |
| Leader Party: | Morena |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipal seat |
| Subdivision Name2: | Ensenada |
| Subdivision Type3: | Largest city |
| Subdivision Name3: | Ensenada |
| Blank Name: | INEGI code |
| Blank Info: | 001 |
| Timezone: | Northwest (US Pacific) |
| Utc Offset: | −8 |
| Timezone Dst: | Northwest |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −7 |
| Website: | Ayuntamiento de Ensenada |
| Established Title: | Municipality established |
| Established Date: | 29 December 1953[2] |
| Footnotes: | Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México |
Ensenada is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California. It is the fourth-largest municipality in the country, with a land area of 19526.8km2 in 2020,[3] making slightly smaller than the state of Hidalgo and larger than five other Mexican states.
Located offshore, Cedros Island and Guadalupe Island are part of the municipality, making Ensenada the westernmost municipality in Mexico and Latin America.
Incorporated on May 15, 1882 as the northern partido of the Baja California Territory, it became a municipality of the state of Baja California on December 29, 1953.[4]
The municipality shares borders with every other municipality in the state: Tijuana, Playas de Rosarito and Tecate to the north, Mexicali and San Felipe to the east and southeast and San Quintín to the south. Its municipal seat is Ensenada, a port lying near the northwest corner of the municipality.
Ensenada's current municipal president (Spanish; Castilian: link=no|presidente municipal) is Armando Ayala Robles. A major port is planned to be built in Punta Colonet, a largely uninhabited area 80km (50miles) south of the city of Ensenada.
In February 2020, San Quintín separated from Ensenada and became Baja California's sixth municipality.[5] Prior to this, Ensenada was the country's largest municipality. In January 2022, Puertecitos separated from Ensenada to San Felipe and became Baja California's seventh municipality, further reducing the size of Ensenada Municipality.
The Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 17 boroughs:
As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 443,807 in 1,698 localities.
Ensenada, the seat, has 330,652 residents, and the following are the largest urban communities:
| width=160px | Term | width=180px | Municipal president | width=102px | Political party | width=90px | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal presidents of Ensenada, Northern District of Baja California | |||||||
| 1888-1889 | Emilio Legaspy | Círculo Nacional Porfirista[6] | |||||
| 1889 | Ricardo P. Eaton | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | |||||
| 1889 | Juan F. Montenegro | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | Acting municipal president | ||||
| 1889-1891 | Rodolfo F. Nieto | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | |||||
| 1891-1896 | Ismael Sánchez | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | |||||
| 1896-1897 | José María Obando | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | |||||
| 1897-1901 | Carlos A. Guijosa | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | |||||
| 1901 | Alejandro Guerrero y Porres | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | |||||
| 1901-1902 | Enrique Ferniza | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | Acting municipal president | ||||
| 1902-1903 | Alejandro Guerrero y Porres | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | Resumed | ||||
| 1903-1907 | Eulogio Romero | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | |||||
| 1907-1911 | Manuel Labastida Castro | Círculo Nacional Porfirista | |||||
| Municipal presidents of Ensenada, Northern Territory of Baja California | |||||||
| 1911-1915 | David Zárate Zazueta | ||||||
| 1915-1916 | Eugenie G. Beraud | ||||||
| 1916-1920 | Antonio Ptacnik | ||||||
| 1920-1921 | |||||||
| 1921 | Ramón Moyron, Jr. | ||||||
| 1921-1922 | David Zárate Zazueta | ||||||
| 1922-1923 | Ramón Moyron, Jr. | ||||||
| 1923-1924 | Luis G. Beltrán | ||||||
| 1924 | Andrés E. Núñez | ||||||
| 1924-1925 | Percy Hussong | ||||||
| 1925-1926 | Gustavo Appel | ||||||
| 1926-1927 | Manuel Robles Linares | ||||||
| Municipal Council | |||||||
| 1927-1928 | Daniel Goldbaum | First councilman | |||||
| Delegation of Government | |||||||
| 1928 | Daniel Goldbaum | First delegate | |||||
| 1929-1932 | David Zárate Zazueta | Second delegate | |||||
| 1932-1936 | Antonio Ortiz Ortega | Partido Nacional Revolucionario | PNR | Third delegate | |||
| 1936-1944 | Juan Julio Dunn Legaspy | Partido Nacional Revolucionario | Fourth delegate | ||||
| 1944-1945 | Braulio Maldonado Sánchez | PRM | Fifth delegate | ||||
| Constitutionally elected municipal presidents | |||||||
| 01/12/1953-1956[7] [8] [9] | David Ojeda Ochoa | ||||||
| 1956-31/10/1956 | Víctor Salazar | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | Acting municipal president | |||
| 01/11/1956-31/10/1959 | Santos B. Cota | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1959-31/10/1962 | Elpidio Berlanga de León | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1962-31/10/1965 | Adolfo Ramírez Méndez | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1965-31/10/1968 | Jorge Olguín Hermida | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1968-31/10/1971 | Guilebaldo Silva Cota | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1971-31/10/1974 | Octavio Pérez Pazuengo | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1974-31/10/1977 | Jorge Moreno Bonet | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1977-31/10/1980 | Luis González Ruiz | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1980-31/10/1983 | Raúl Ramírez Funcke | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1983-31/10/1986 | David Ojeda Ochoa | First municipal president out of an opposition party | |||||
| 01/11/1986-19/04/1989 | He applied for a temporary leave in order to run for the state governor office, which he got | ||||||
| 20/04/1989-31/10/1989 | Enrique Chapela Zapién | National Action Party (Mexico) | PAN | Acting municipal president | |||
| 01/11/1989-31/10/1992 | Jesús del Palacio Lafontaine | National Action Party (Mexico) | PAN | ||||
| 01/11/1992-31/10/1995 | Óscar Sánchez del Palacio | National Action Party (Mexico) | PAN | ||||
| 01/11/1995-31/10/1998 | Manuel Montenegro Espinoza | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | ||||
| 01/11/1998-2001 | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | He applied for a temporary leave in order to seek the state governor office, which he didn't get | ||||
| 2001-31/10/2001 | Ricardo Arjona Goldbaum | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI | Acting municipal president | |||
| 01/11/2001-31/10/2004 | Jorge Antonio Catalán Sosa | National Action Party (Mexico) | Alliance for Baja California | ||||
| 01/11/2004-31/10/2007 | National Action Party (Mexico) | PAN | |||||
| 01/11/2007-31/10/2010 | Pablo Alejo López Núñez | National Action Party (Mexico) | Alliance for Baja California | ||||
| 01/11/2010-31/10/2013 | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI PVEM | Coalition For a Responsible Government | ||||
| 01/11/2013-31/10/2016 | Gilberto Hirata Chico | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI PT PVEM PES | Coalition Compromise for Baja California | |||
| 01/11/2016-30/09/2019 | Marco Antonio Novelo Osuna | Institutional Revolutionary Party | PRI PT PVEM Panal | Coalition PRI-PT-PVEM-Panal | |||
| 01/10/2019-30/09/2021[10] | Armando Ayala Robles | ||||||
| 01/10/2021-[11] | He was reelected on 06/06/2021 | ||||||