Loreto Municipality, Baja California Sur

1

Loreto is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It was created in 1992 from the partition of the neighboring Comondú Municipality. The municipal seat is in the town of Loreto, which was the former capital of Las Californias during Spanish colonial times. The 2020 census reported a population of 18,052, about 94% of whom lived in the town of Loreto. The municipality has an area of 4,311 km2.

Demographics

As 2020, the city of Loreto with a population of 16,311 concentrates 94% of the municipal population. There are other 136 small communities, which the largest are Ligüí (248 hab.), Ensenada Blanca (227 hab.), Puerto Agua Verde (210 hab.), San Javier (155 hab.) and Nopoló (103 hab.).

Sister cities

This article is derived from Wikipedia and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. View the original article.

Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
Bliptext is not affiliated with or endorsed by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation.

Edit article