La Paz Municipality, Baja California Sur

La Paz
Municipality
Coat of arms of La Paz
Coat of arms
Location of municipality in Baja California Sur
Location of municipality in Baja California Sur
Country Mexico
State Baja California Sur
Municipal seat and largest cityLa Paz
Government
 • MayorMilena Paola Quiroga Romero (MORENA)
Area
 • Total
33,092.20 km2 (12,776.97 sq mi)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
292,241
 • Density8.8/km2 (23/sq mi)
 • Seat
250,141
Time zoneUTC−7 (Pacific (US Mountain))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−6 (Pacific)
Website(in Spanish) Ayuntamiento de La Paz
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

La Paz is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Its area of 20,275 km2 (7,828 sq mi) 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

Ranches
Historical population
YearPop.±%
1970 51,521—    
1980 130,427+153.2%
1990 160,970+23.4%
1995 182,418+13.3%
2000 196,907+7.9%
2005 219,596+11.5%
2010 251,871+14.7%
2015 272,711+8.3%
2020 292,241+7.2%
[3]

As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 292,241.[4] 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.[4]

Government

Municipal presidents

Municipal president Term Political party Notes
Alfonso González Ojeda[5] 1972–1974 PRI
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 PAN
Leonel Cota Montaño 1996–1998 PRI
Ramón Donato Ojeda Carrillo 1998–1999 PRI Acting municipal president
Alfredo Porras Domínguez 1999–2002 PRD
PT 		Democratic and Labor Coalition
Víctor Manuel Guluarte Castro 2002–2005 PRD
Convergencia
Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío 2005–2008 PRD
Convergencia 		Sudcalifornian Democratic Coalition
(Coalición Democrática Sudcaliforniana)
Rosa Delia Cota Montaño 2008–2011 PRD
Convergencia
PT 		Coalition for the Good of Sudcalifornia
Esthela Ponce Beltrán 2011–2014 PRI
PVEM 		Coalition "United for BCS"
Francisco Javier Monroy Sánchez 2014–2015 PRI
PVEM 		Coalition "United for BCS". Acting municipal president
Armando Martínez Vega 2015–2018 PAN
Partido de Renovación Sudcaliforniana [es] sinmarco
Rubén Gregorio Muñoz Álvarez 2018–2021 Morena
PES
Milena Paola Quiroga Romero[6] 2021–2024 Morena
Milena Paola Quiroga Romero 2024– Morena She was reelected

See also

References

  1. ^ (in Spanish) Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial Archived 2007-03-03 at the Wayback Machine, Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal, SEGOB (Mexico.) Accessed on line 15-II-2008.
  2. ^ "Poblacion Por Municipio, Superficie, Densidad De Poblacion" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-21. Retrieved 2018-06-17. Archived 2018-01-21 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "Tabulados básicos - descarga". Archived from the original on 2014-09-15. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
  4. ^ a b 2020 La Paz Census
  5. ^ "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Baja California Sur. La Paz" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 November 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Instituto Estatal Electoral de Baja California Sur (IEEBCS). Ayuntamientos. Votos" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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