Ensenada Municipality

Ensenada is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California.^[4] It is the fourth-largest municipality in the country, with a land area of 19,526.8 km² (7,539.3 sq mi) in 2020,^[5] making slightly smaller than the state of Hidalgo and larger than five other Mexican states.

Ensenada Municipality Municipio de Ensenada
Municipality
Municipality of Ensenada
The Pacific coast of Ensenada Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Ensenada in Baja California since 2022
Coordinates: 31.519°N 116.005°W / 31.519; -116.005
Country	Mexico
State	Baja California
Municipal seat	Ensenada
Largest city	Ensenada
Municipality established	29 December 1953[1]
Government
• Municipal president	Claudia Agatón Muñiz (Morena)
Area
• Total	19,526.8 km2 (7,539.3 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	443,807[2]
Time zone	UTC−8 (Northwest (US Pacific))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−7 (Northwest)
INEGI code	001
Website	(in Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada
Source: National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development (Inafed) Former website inaccessible. It was substituted. National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development (Inafed)[3]

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.^[6]

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 (as of 2020^[update]) municipal president (Spanish: presidente municipal) is Armando Ayala Robles. A major port is planned to be built in Punta Colonet, a largely uninhabited area 80 km (50 mi) south of the city of Ensenada.

In February 2020, San Quintín separated from Ensenada and became Baja California's sixth municipality.^[7] 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.

Subdivisions

Administrative divisions of Ensenada Municipality.

The Ensenada municipality is administratively subdivided into 17 boroughs:

1. Ensenada
2. La Misión
3. El Porvenir
4. Francisco Zarco (Guadalupe)
5. San Antonio de las Minas
6. El Sauzal
7. Real del Castillo
8. Maneadero
9. Santo Tomás
10. Eréndira
11. San Vicente
12. Valle de la Trinidad
13. Colonet
14. Isla de Cedros
15. Sector Centro
16. Sector Noroeste
17. Chapultepec

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1990	259,979	—
2000	370,730	+42.6%
2010	466,814	+25.9%
2020	443,807	−4.9%
From INEGI's Decennial Census.[8]

As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 443,807 in 1,698 localities.^[2]

Ensenada, the seat, has 330,652 residents, and the following are the largest urban communities:

• Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada (Maneadero) (27,969)
• El Sauzal de Rodríguez (11,371)
• El Zorrillo (8,522)
• San Vicente (5,062)
• Valle de Guadalupe (4,334)
• Valle de la Trinidad (3,381)
• Punta Colonet (3,095)
• Ojos Negros (2,707)
• Poblado Héroes de Chapultepec (2,360).

Government

Municipal presidents

Term	Municipal president	Political party	Notes
Municipal presidents of Ensenada, Northern District of Baja California
1888-1889	Emilio Legaspy	Círculo Nacional Porfirista[9]
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	Othón P. Blanco
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	PNR	Second delegate
1932-1936	Antonio Ortiz Ortega	PNR	Third delegate
1936-1944	Juan Julio Dunn Legaspy	PNR PRM	Fourth delegate
1944-1945	Braulio Maldonado Sánchez	PRM	Fifth delegate
Constitutionally elected municipal presidents
01/12/1953-1956[10][11]	David Ojeda Ochoa	PRI
1956-31/10/1956	Víctor Salazar	PRI	Acting municipal president
01/11/1956-31/10/1959	Santos B. Cota	PRI
01/11/1959-31/10/1962	Elpidio Berlanga de León	PRI
01/11/1962-31/10/1965	Adolfo Ramírez Méndez	PRI
01/11/1965-31/10/1968	Jorge Olguín Hermida	PRI
01/11/1968-31/10/1971	Guilebaldo Silva Cota	PRI
01/11/1971-31/10/1974	Octavio Pérez Pazuengo	PRI
01/11/1974-31/10/1977	Jorge Moreno Bonet	PRI
01/11/1977-31/10/1980	Luis González Ruiz	PRI
01/11/1980-31/10/1983	Raúl Ramírez Funcke	PRI
01/11/1983-31/10/1986	David Ojeda Ochoa	Socialist Workers' Party, PST	First municipal president out of an opposition party
01/11/1986-19/04/1989	Ernesto Ruffo Appel	PAN	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	PAN	Acting municipal president
01/11/1989-31/10/1992	Jesús del Palacio Lafontaine	PAN
01/11/1992-31/10/1995[12]	Óscar Sánchez del Palacio	PAN
01/11/1995-31/10/1998	Manuel Montenegro Espinoza	PRI
01/11/1998-2001	Daniel Quintero Peña	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	PRI	Acting municipal president
01/11/2001-31/10/2004	Jorge Antonio Catalán Sosa	PAN PVEM	Alliance for Baja California
01/11/2004-31/10/2007	César Mancillas Amador	PAN
01/11/2007-31/10/2010	Pablo Alejo López Núñez	PAN Panal PES	Alliance for Baja California
01/11/2010-31/10/2013	Enrique Pelayo Torres	PRI PVEM	Coalition For a Responsible Government
01/11/2013-31/10/2016	Gilberto Hirata Chico	PRI PT PVEM PES	Coalition Compromise for Baja California
01/11/2016-30/09/2019	Marco Antonio Novelo Osuna	PRI PT PVEM Panal	Coalition PRI-PT-PVEM-Panal
01/10/2019-30/09/2021[13]	Armando Ayala Robles	Morena
01/10/2021-30/09/2024[14]			He was reelected on 06/06/2021
01/10/2024-	Claudia Agatón Muñiz

See also

• Punta Colonet, Baja California
• Maneadero

Notes

1. (in Spanish) pp. 78–79, La Transformación de Baja California en Estado, 1931–1952 Archived 29 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen, Estudios Fronterizos, 1, No. 1 (January–June 2000), UABC, Mexicali, pp. 47–87.
2. "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2020 - SCITEL" (in Spanish). INEGI. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
3. "National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development (Inafed). On the left column, please click on "Ficha Básica". Then, from the drop-down menu, select "Municipal", and then please select "Datos Generales". Search for the state or federal entity and then the desired municipality. Baja California. Ensenada" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2024.
4. "Ensenada" (in Spanish). Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México. Archived from the original on 24 February 2007.
5. "México en cifras - Medio Ambiente - Superficie continental" (in Spanish). INEGI. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
6. 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 6 January 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
7. "San Quintín will be the sixth municipality in Baja California" (in Spanish). El Financiero. Archived from the original on 3 March 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
8. "Censo de Población y Vivienda - SCITEL" (in Spanish). INEGI. Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
9. Porfirist National Circle; the adjective "Porfirist" stands for the proper name of dictator Porfirio Díaz.
10. "Alcaldes de Ensenada (Mayors of Ensenada)". El Vigía (in Spanish). 7 August 2011. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
11. "Transparencia Municipal. Ayuntamiento de Ensenada" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 1 August 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
12. "National Institute for Federalism and Municipal Development (Inafed). On the left column, please click on "Información Histórica". Then, from the drop-down menu, select "Presidentes Municipales". Search for the state or federal entity and then the desired municipality. Baja California. Ensenada" (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2024.
13. "Confirma Ayala Robles que no pedirá licencia; Ayala Robles confirms that he will not apply for a leave". El Vigía (in Spanish). 28 April 2021. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.
14. "Instituto Estatal Electoral. Baja California. Acta de Cómputo de Entidad Federativa de la Elección para el Ayuntamiento de Ensenada" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 June 2021. Retrieved 15 July 2021.

References

• Ensenada: Its background, founding, and early development http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/84winter/ensenada.htm Archived 20 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine
• (in Spanish) Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática
• (in Spanish) Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial Instituto Nacional para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal
• (in Spanish) Subdivisions (delegaciones)

External links

• (in Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Ensenada Official government website.
• (in English) Property frenzy in Baja California, Diane Lindquist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 April 2006. Article on planned port construction at Punta Colonet.