Puerto Nuevo is a town in

Playas de Rosarito Municipality Playas de Rosarito Municipality () 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 Rosar ...

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, located on the

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. The 2010 census reported a population of 135 inhabitants. Puerto Nuevo is famous as the "Lobster Village" of Baja California.

Geography

Puerto Nuevo is a 10-minute drive south of the town of

Rosarito Beach Rosarito is a coastal city in Playas de Rosarito Municipality, Baja California, on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. As of 2010, the city had a population of 65,278. Located south of the US–Mexico border, Rosarito is a part of the greater San Diego� ...

, and roughly 40 miles north of

Ensenada Ensenada ("inlet") is a city in Ensenada Municipality, Baja California, situated on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Located on Bahía de Todos Santos, the city had a population of 279,765 in 2018, making it the third-largest city in Baja Californ ...

Tourism

There are several hotels in the area and dozens of restaurants, mostly featuring

lobster Lobsters are Malacostraca, malacostracans Decapoda, decapod crustaceans of the family (biology), family Nephropidae or its Synonym (taxonomy), synonym Homaridae. They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on th ...

, the local speciality. The town itself contains the usual shops and pharmacies found in most towns. The famous surf break known as "Captain Ron's" lies 5 minutes north of Puerto Nuevo.

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Cities in Playas de Rosarito Municipality {{BajaCalifornia-geo-stub