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La Paz ( pronounced [la ˈpas] ⓘ, English: Peace) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. The city had a 2020 census population of 250,141 inhabitants, [1] making it the most populous city in the state. It is in La Paz Municipality, which is the fourth-largest municipality in Mexico in geographical size and reported a ...
v. t. e. The Spanish missions in Baja California were a large number of religious outposts established by Catholic religious orders, the Jesuits, the Franciscans and the Dominicans, between 1683 and 1834. The missionary goal was to spread the Christian doctrine among the Indigenous peoples living on the Baja California peninsula.
El Centenario. / 24.10250°N 110.41444°W / 24.10250; -110.41444. El Centenario is a small seaside town located in La Paz Municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico, approximately 15 km west of La Paz, the capital city. El Centenario had a 2020 census population of 6,221 persons. [1]
Puerto Balandra, Baja California Sur. Puerto Balandra is an isolated, unpopulated coastal area with eight beaches, an interior salt lagoon and a rock formation called "El Hongo" (the mushroom) which has become the symbol of La Paz (Baja California Sur). [1] The area is about 25 km from La Paz on State Highway 11 on the way to Tecolote and faces ...
The Our Lady of Peace Cathedral [1] ( Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Paz) [2] or La Paz Cathedral is a Catholic church in the center of the city of La Paz, Baja California Sur, [3] western Mexico [4] that is the seat of the Diocese of La Paz. It is located where the mission was founded by the Jesuits in the eighteenth century.
La Paz is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Its area of 20,275 km² (7,828.2 sq mi) makes it the municipality in Mexico with the fourth-largest area. [1] It had a population of 290,286 inhabitants in the 2015 census. [2] Its municipal seat, also named La Paz, is the state capital.
Baja California Sur ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja ˈsuɾ] ⓘ; 'South Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur (English: Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur ), is the least populated state and the 31st admitted state of the 32 federal entities which comprise the 31 States of Mexico.
Demographics. Population. Uninhabited. Isla Cerralvo ( Spanish: [ˈisla seˈralβo] ), as is commonly named, whose official name is Isla Jacques Cousteau ( French: [ʒak kusto]; Spanish: [ʝak ˈkusto] ), is an island located off the Cerralvo Canal coast near La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico . It is 18 miles (29 km) long with a land area of ...