Mulegé Municipality


Mulegé is the northernmost municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It is the second-largest municipality by area in the country, with an area of 32,092.2 km². In the census of 2010 it had a population of 59,114 inhabitants. Isla Natividad is part of the municipality.
The municipal seat is located in Santa Rosalía.
There is an initiative to split the municipality into two, with the division along the ridge dividing the current municipality, so that the Pacific side, which includes its largest city, Guerrero Negro, and also Villa Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo, would be separated from the Gulf of California side, which includes Santa Rosalía and Mulegé.

Subdivisions

Including the municipal seat of Santa Rosalía, the municipality is subdivided into six delegaciones:
  1. Santa Rosalía
  2. Bahía Tortugas
  3. Guerrero Negro
  4. Mulegé
  5. San Ignacio
  6. Vizcaíno

    Demographics

As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 60,171.
The municipality had 979 localities, the largest of which were: Guerrero Negro, Santa Rosalía, Villa Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo, Heroica Mulegé, Bahía Tortugas, classified as urban, and San Francisco, Las Margaritas, Bahía Asunción, and El Silencio, classified as rural.