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La Paz
La Paz
Municipality
	Promenade of La Paz
	Coat of arms
	Location of municipality in Baja California Sur
Country	Mexico
State	Baja California Sur
Municipal seat and largest city	La Paz
Government
• Mayor	Milena Paola Quiroga Romero (MORENA)
Area
• Total	20,274.98 km2 (7,828.21 sq mi)
Population (2020)
• Total	292,241
• Seat	250,141
Time zone	UTC−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 (7,828.2 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 edit

Ranches

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
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 edit

Municipal presidents edit

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

References edit

^ (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.
^ "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
^ "Tabulados básicos - descarga". Archived from the original on 2014-09-15. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
^ ^a ^b 2020 La Paz Census
^ "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.
^ "Instituto Estatal Electoral de Baja California Sur (IEEBCS). Ayuntamientos. Votos" (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 January 2022.