La Paz 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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** People
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*** Mexica, ancient indigenous people ...
state
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* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
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of
Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur, is a state in Mexico. It is the 31st and last state to be admitted, in 1974. It is also the second least populated Mexican state and the ninth-largest state by ...
. Its area of makes it the municipality in Mexico with the fourth-largest area.
[Los Municipios con Mayor y Menor Extensión Territorial]
, , SEGOB
The Secretariat of the Interior (; SEGOB) is the executive department of the Mexican government concerned with the country's domestic affairs, the presenting of the president's bills to Congress, their publication in the ''Official Journal of ...
(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
La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Aymara language, Aymara: Chuqi Yapu ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With 755,732 residents as of 2024, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities by populati ...
, is the state capital.
Demographics

As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 292,241.
[2020 La Paz Census]
/ref> 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.[
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Government
Municipal presidents
See also
* Puerto Balandra, Baja California Sur
References
External links
Official Ayuntamiento de La Paz website (''La Paz Municipality'')
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Municipalities of Baja California Sur
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