La Paz Municipality, Baja California Sur


La Paz is a municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Its area of 20,275 km² makes it the municipality in Mexico with the fourth-largest area. It had a population of 290,286 inhabitants in the 2015 census. Its municipal seat, also named La Paz, is the state capital.

Demographics

As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 290,286.
As of 2015, the city of La Paz had a population of 244,219. Other than the city of La Paz, the municipality had 1,749 localities, the largest of which were: Todos Santos, El Centenario, classified as urban, and El Pescadero, Chametla, Colonia Calafia, Melitón Albáñez Domínguez, and Los Barriles, classified as rural.