La Paz | ||
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Municipality | ||
Seaside of La Paz
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Location of municipality in Baja California Sur |
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Country | Mexico | |
State | Baja California Sur | |
Government | ||
• Municipal president | Víctor Castro Cosío (PRD) | |
Area | ||
• Municipality | 20,274.98 km2 (7,828.21 sq mi) | |
Population (2010) | ||
• Municipality | 251,871 | |
• Density | 12/km2 (32/sq mi) | |
• Urban | 225,022 | |
Data source: INEGI | ||
Time zone | MST (UTC−7) | |
• Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC−6) | |
Website | (Spanish) Ayuntamiento de La Paz | |
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México |
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. It had a population of 251,871 inhabitants in the 2010 census. Its municipal seat, also named La Paz, is the state capital.
As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 251,871.
As of 2010, the city of La Paz had a population of 215,178. Other than the city of La Paz, the municipality had 1,749 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Todos Santos (5,148), El Centenario (4,696), classified as urban, and El Pescadero (2,338), Chametla (2,178), Colonia Calafia (1,690), Melitón Albáñez Domínguez (1,588), and Los Barriles (1,174), classified as rural.
Coordinates: 24°00′N 110°45′W / 24.000°N 110.750°W