La Paz is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Its area of makes it the municipality in Mexico with the fourth-largest area. Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial , Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal, SEGOB (Mexico.) Accessed on line 15-II-2008. It had a population of 290,286 inhabitants in the 2015 census. Its municipal seat, also named La Paz, is the state capital.
Demographics
As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 292,241.2020 La Paz Census 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.
Government Municipal presidents Municipal presidentTermPolitical partyNotesAlfonso González Ojeda1972–1974PRI Jorge Santa Ana González1975–1977PRI Francisco Cardoza Macías1978–1980PRI Matías Amador Moyrón1981–1983PRI J. Enrique V. Ortega Romero1984–1986PRI José Carlos Cota Osuna1987–1989PRI Antonio Wilson González1990–1993PRI Adán Rufo Velarde1993–1996PAN Leonel Cota Montaño1996–1998PRI Ramón Donato Ojeda Carrillo1998–1999PRI Acting municipal presidentAlfredo Porras Domínguez1999–2002PRD PT Democratic and Labor CoalitionVíctor Manuel Guluarte Castro2002–2005PRD Convergencia Víctor Manuel Castro Cosío2005–2008PRD Convergencia Sudcalifornian Democratic Coalition (Coalición Democrática Sudcaliforniana)Rosa Delia Cota Montaño2008–2011PRD Convergencia PT Coalition for the Good of SudcaliforniaEsthela Ponce Beltrán2011–2014PRI PVEM Coalition "United for BCS"Francisco Javier Monroy Sánchez2014–2015PRI PVEM Coalition "United for BCS". Acting municipal presidentArmando Martínez Vega2015–2018PAN Rubén Gregorio Muñoz Álvarez2018–2021Morena PES Milena Paola Quiroga Romero2021–2024Morena Milena Paola Quiroga Romero2024–Morena She was reelected
See also
Puerto Balandra, Baja California Sur
References
External links Official Ayuntamiento de La Paz website (La Paz Municipality)—