Playas de Rosarito Municipality ( es, Municipio de Playas de Rosarito) is located in the northwestern part of the Mexican state of

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comprising part of the Tijuana metropolitan area. It lies just south of the city of

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. Its municipal seat is the city of

Rosarito Rosarito is a coastal city in Playas de Rosarito Municipality, Baja California, situated 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 ...

. 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, Spanish 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 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 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

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, the region's development hub. Playas de Rosarito means "beaches of Rosarito".

Boroughs

* Primo Tapia * 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

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(2,040), Colinas del Sol (1,361), and Santa Anita (1,284), classified as rural.

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
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