La Paz Municipality, Baja California Sur

La Paz is a municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Its area of 20,275 km² (7,828.2 sq mi) makes it the municipality in Mexico with the fourth-largest area.[2] It had a population of 290,286 inhabitants in the 2015 census.[1] Its municipal seat, also named La Paz, is the state capital.

La Paz
Municipality
Promenade of La Paz
Coat of arms
Location of municipality in Baja California Sur
Country Mexico
State Baja California Sur
Government
 • Municipal presidentRubén Muñoz (MORENA)
Area
 • Total20,274.98 km2 (7,828.21 sq mi)
Population
 (2015)
 • Total290,286 [1]
 Data source: INEGI
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

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 290,286+15.3%
[3]

As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 290,286.[1]

As of 2015, the city of La Paz had a population of 244,219.[1] Other than the city of La Paz, the municipality had 1,749 localities, the largest of which (with 2015 populations in brackets) were: Todos Santos (6,485), El Centenario (6,068), classified as urban, and El Pescadero (3,151), Chametla (2,734), Colonia Calafia (2,064), Melitón Albáñez Domínguez (2,140), and Los Barriles (1,174), 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
Rubén Gregorio Muñoz Álvarez 2018–2021 Morena
PES
Milena Paola Quiroga Romero[6] 2021– Morena

See also

References
  1. "Poblacion Por Municipio, Superficie, Densidad De Poblacion" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-01-21. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  2. (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.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-09-15. Retrieved 2014-09-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "La Paz". Catálogo de Localidades. Secretaría de Desarrollo Social (SEDESOL). Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  5. "Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México. Baja California Sur. La Paz" (in Spanish). 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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