Tecate is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the Mexican

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Baja California Baja California, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, is a state in Mexico. It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of B ...

. Its municipal seat is located in the city of

Tecate Tecate () is a city in Tecate Municipality, Baja California. It is across the Mexico–United States border, Mexico–US border from Tecate, California. As of 2019, the city had a population of 108,860 inhabitants, while the metropolitan area ha ...

. 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 Valle de las Palmas (Palms Valley in Spanish) is located between two hamlets Espuela and Seco in the municipalities of Tijuana and Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. It is the site of a long-term planned urban development which would take advantage o ...

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, C ...

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 Valle de las Palmas (Palms Valley in Spanish) is located between two hamlets Espuela and Seco in the municipalities of Tijuana and Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. It is the site of a long-term planned urban development which would take advantage o ...

(1,860),

(1,836), Maclovio Herrera (Colonia Aviación) (1,219), Alfonso Garzón (Granjas Familiares) (1,188), and

El Mirador El Mirador (which translates as "the lookout", "the viewpoint", or "the belvedere") is a large pre-Columbian Middle and Late Preclassic Maya, Preclassic (1000 BC – 250 AD) Maya civilization, Maya settlement, located in the north of the moder ...

(1,171), classified as rural.

Adjacent municipalities and counties

Mexicali Municipality Mexicali Municipality is a Municipalities of Mexico, municipality () in the Mexican States of Mexico, state of Baja California. Its municipal seat () is located in the city of Mexicali. As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 1,04 ...

– east *

Ensenada Municipality Ensenada is a municipalities of Mexico, municipality in the Mexico, Mexican States of Mexico, state of Baja California. It is the fourth-largest municipality in the country, with a land area of in 2020, making slightly smaller than the state of ...

– south *

Tijuana Municipality Tijuana Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California. Its municipal seat is located in the city of Tijuana. According to the 2020 census, the municipality had a population of 1,922,523. Montserrat Caballero of the MOR ...

– west *

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– north *

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– 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