Playas de Rosarito Municipality

Playas de Rosarito Municipality (Spanish: Municipio de Playas de Rosarito) 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 Rosarito. According to the 2020 census, the municipality had a population of 126,890 inhabitants.^[2] Its area is 513.32 km² (198.19 sq mi).

Playas de Rosarito Municipality
Municipality
Municipio de Playas de Rosarito
Seal
Motto(s):  Un horizonte de posiblidades (A Horizon of Possibilities)
Location of Playas de Rosarito Municipality in Baja California.
Coordinates: 32°20′32″N 117°03′22″W
Country	Mexico
State	Baja California
Municipal seat	Rosarito
Largest city	Rosarito
Municipality established	June 29, 1995
Government
• Mayor	Rocio Adame Muñoz[1]
Area
• Total	513.32 km2 (198.19 sq mi)
Population  (2020)
• Total	126,890
• Density	250/km2 (640/sq mi)
	Data source:[2]
Time zone	UTC−8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−7 (PDT)
INEGI code	005
Website	(in Spanish) Ayuntamiento de Playas de Rosarito
Source: Enciclopedia de los Municipios de México

History

At the end of the 18th century, Spanish Dominican missionaries and friars 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 Mexican–American War 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 Tijuana, the region's development hub.

Playas de Rosarito means "beaches of Rosarito".

Boroughs

• Primo Tapia
• Plan Libertador

Demographics

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
2010	90,668	—
2015	96,734	+6.7%
2020	126,890	+31.2%
[3][4][5][6]

As of 2020, the municipality had a total population of 126,890.^[2]

As of 2010, the city of Playas de Rosarito had a population of 65,278.^[7] 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 Ciudad Morelos (2,040), Colinas del Sol (1,361), and Santa Anita (1,284), classified as rural.^[7]

Other localities

Source:^[7]

• El Descanso (pop. 567)
• Puerto Nuevo (pop. 135)
• Santa Anita (pop. 1,284)