Playas de Rosarito Municipality

Playas de Rosarito Municipality
Playas de Rosarito Municipality
Municipality
	Municipio de Playas de Rosarito
	Seal
	Motto(s): Un horizonte de posiblidades; (A Horizon of Possibilities)
	Location of Rosarito Beach Municipality in Baja California.
	Coordinates: 32°20′32″N 117°03′22″W / 32.34222°N 117.05611°W
Country	Mexico
State	Baja California
Municipal seat	Rosarito
Largest city	Rosarito
Municipality established	June 29, 1995
Government
• Municipal president	Hugo Torres ( PRI)
Area
• Total	513.32 km2 (198.19 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	90,668
• Density	180/km2 (460/sq mi)
	Data source: INEGI 2010 Census
Time zone	UTC−8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−7 (PDT)
INEGI code	005
Website	(in Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Playas de Rosarito
	Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

Playas de Rosarito Municipality (Spanish: Municipio de Playas de Rosarito) is located in the northwestern part of the Mexican state of Baja California comprising part of the Tijuana metropolitan area. It lies just south of the city of Tijuana. Its municipal seat is the city of Rosarito. According to the 2010 census, the municipality had a population of 90,668 inhabitants.^[1] Its area is 513.32 km² (198.19 sq mi).

Name

Playas de Rosarito means "beaches of Rosarito".

Boroughs

Demographics

As of 2010, the municipality had a total population of 90,668.^[1]

As of 2010, the city of Playas de Rosarito had a population of 65,278.^[1] Other than the city of Playas de Rosarito, the municipality had 358 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Ampliación Ejido Plan Libertador (5,906), Primo Tapia (4,921), classified as urban, and Ciudad Morelos (2,040), Colinas del Sol (1,361), and Santa Anita (1,284), classified as rural.^[1]

Other localities ^[1]

El Descanso (pop. 567)
Puerto Nuevo (pop. 135)
Santa Anita (pop. 1,284)

References

(in Spanish) Link to tables of population data from the 2005 Census, INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática.
(in Spanish) Playas de Rosarito, Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México, Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal, SEGOB. Accessed on line November 15, 2007.