Ensenada, Baja California
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Ciudad de Ensenada City of Ensenada |
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Images from top, left to right: Carnival Paradise docked in the Port of Ensenada, Bahía Todos Santos, Villa Marina Hotel, Grapes from the Guadalupe Valley
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| Nickname(s): Cinderella of the Pacific, Pearl of the Pacific, Ensenada de todos los santos | |
 Ensenada
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| Coordinates: 31°51′28″N 116°36′21″W / 31.85778°N 116.60583°WCoordinates: 31°51′28″N 116°36′21″W / 31.85778°N 116.60583°W | |
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 Mexico
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| State |
 Baja California
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| Municipality | Ensenada |
| Founded | September 17, 1542 |
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| • Type | Ayuntamiento |
| • Municipal President | Gilberto Hirata Chico |
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| • Urban | 23.58 sq mi (61.08 km2) |
| Elevation | 52 ft (16 m) |
| Population (2015) | |
| • City | 519,813 |
| Demonym(s) | Ensenadan |
| Time zone | PST (UTC−8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) |
| Postal code | 22800-22899 |
| Area code(s) | 646 |
Ensenada (Spanish pronunciation: [enseˈnaða]) is a coastal city in Mexico, the third-largest in Baja California. Lying 125 kilometres (78 mi) south of San Diego on the Baja California Peninsula, it is locally referred to as La Cenicienta del Pacífico, "The Cinderella of the Pacific."
One of the first settlements founded in the Californias, Ensenada has emerged as a cruise ship destination, aerospace center, and there is a nearby region to the northeast where wine grapes are grown. It is said that the first Vitis vinifera made it to the region's San Ignacio Mission in 1703, when Jesuit Padre Juan de Ugarte planted the first vineyards there.
Situated on the coastline of Bahía de Todos Santos—an inlet of the Pacific Ocean on the peninsula's Gold Coast—the Port of Ensenada is an important commercial, fishing, and tourist port. The city is home to a navy base, army base, and Ensenada Airport, a military airfield which doubles as an airport of entry into Mexico.
Ensenada is the municipal seat and cultural and commercial center of Ensenada Municipality, one of five into which the state is divided. As of 2015, the city of Ensenada had a population of 519,813.
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