Loreto Municipality, Baja California Sur


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.

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, Ensenada Blanca, Puerto Agua Verde, San Javier and Nopoló.

Sister City