Tecate is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California. Its municipal seat is located in the city of

Tecate Tecate () is a city in Tecate Municipality, Baja California. It is across the Mexico-US border from Tecate, California. As of 2019, the city had a population of 108,860 inhabitants, while the metropolitan area has a population of 132,406 inha ...

. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 108,440 inhabitants. The municipality has an area of 3,079.0 km² (1,188.8 sq mi).

Boroughs

The municipality is administratively subdivided into 6 boroughs, in addition to the municipal seat,

. * Nueva Colonia Hindú * Colonia Luis Echeverría * Heroes del Desierto * Mi Ranchito * Valle de Las Palmas *

La Rumorosa La Rumorosa is a town in the municipality of Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. It has a population of 1,836 inhabitants. It lies on the road between Mexicali and Tecate, and it is directly across the international border from Jacumba Hot Springs, Ca ...

Demographics

As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 108,440. As of 2010, the city of

had a population of 64,764. Other than the city of Tecate, the municipality had 964 localities, the largest of which (with 2010 populations in parentheses) were: Lomas de Santa Anita (6,604), Nueva Colonia Hindú (4,431), classified as urban, and Cereso del Hongo (4,278), Luis Echeverría Álvarez (El Hongo) (2,411), classified as urban, and Hacienda Tecate (1,871), Valle de las Palmas (1,860),

(1,836), Maclovio Herrera (Colonia Aviación) (1,219), Alfonso Garzón (Granjas Familiares) (1,188), and El Mirador (1,171), classified as rural.

Adjacent municipalities and counties

* Mexicali Municipality – east * Ensenada Municipality – south * Tijuana Municipality – west *

San Diego County, California San Diego County (), officially the County of San Diego, is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,298,634, making it California's second-most populous county and the fi ...

– north * Imperial County, California – northeast

References

Link to tables of population data from 2010 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

Gobierno Municipal de Tecate, Baja California
Official government website. {{Authority control Municipalities of Baja California