Playas de Rosarito Municipality ( es, Municipio de Playas de Rosarito) is located in the northwestern part of the Mexican
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Baja California
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comprising part of the Tijuana metropolitan area. It lies just south of the city of
Tijuana
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. Its municipal seat is the city of
Rosarito. According to the 2020 census, the municipality had a population of 126,890 inhabitants.
Its area is 513.32 km² (198.19 sq mi).
History
At the end of the 18th century,
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Dominican missionaries and
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s gave the name of El Rosario to an indigenous settlement in the area. The town was part of the mission of San Miguel Arcangel de la Frontera, located a few miles to the south. The mission was founded on March 28, 1787 by the Dominican friar Luis Sales on the banks of the San Juan Bautista stream.
Over time, the name of El Rosario became Rosarito. After the
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and the
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, the new Mexican border lay no more than 30 km (18.5 miles) from Rosarito. This brought the development of the Rancho de la Tia Juana, which eventually grew into the city of
Tijuana
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, the region's development hub.
Playas de Rosarito means "beaches of Rosarito".
Boroughs
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Primo Tapia
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Plan Libertador
Demographics
As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 126,890.
As of 2010, the city of Playas de Rosarito had a population of 65,278.
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.
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Other localities[ ]
* El Descanso (pop. 567)
* Puerto Nuevo (pop. 135)
* Santa Anita (pop. 1,284)
References
Link to tables of population data from the 2005 Census
INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática.
Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México
', Instituto Nacional Para el Federalismo y el Desarrollo Municipal, SEGOB. Accessed on line November 15, 2007.
External links
Ayuntamiento de Playas de Rosarito
Official government website.
Official government tourism office website
Municipalities of Baja California
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