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History. Cabo San Lucas was on several steamship lines in the 1880s. Archaeological excavations have shown evidence of continual human habitation in the area for at least 10,000 years. [6]
A peninsular highway, completed in 1974, opened the Peninsula to Middle America. When Los Cabos International Airport was expanded in 1986, Los Cabos’ lure reached deep into the United States and Canada and triggered the imagination of every citizen.
Learn about the fascinating history of Cabo San Lucas and the events that made Cabo into the international jewel it is today. Early Cabo San Lucas Long before people arrived on the shores of Cabo San Lucas, granite rock formed what is now known as Land’s End 30 million years ago.
A Brief History of Los Cabos: 30 Million Years at Land’s End. By Chris Sands, August 5, 2015. The granite rock formations that extend to Land End in Cabo San Lucas have, over time, become much more than mere boundary markers or evocatively shaped oddities.
Contrary to popular belief, it wasn’t Hernan Cortez, but his navigator, Francisco de Ulloa that first discovered Cabo San Lucas back in 1537. Nowadays, it’s hard to believe that Cabo San Lucas used to be just a small fishing village at the end of a very long and very dusty road in Baja California Sur. There was a massive amount of tuna in ...
1535 – Hernán Cortés himself arrived here Cabo San Lucas, and named the Gulf of California the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) the name still used for it in Spanish. 1537 – Francisco de Ulloa, the navigator for Hernán Cortés first came upon Cabo San Lucas.
Learn more about the history of Cabo San Lucas and the Los Cabos area of Baja California Sur, Mexico. The first human inhabitants of what is now Los Cabos were the Pericú, a hunting and gathering tribe whose territory not only included the southernmost part of the peninsula but also the East Cape and the islands closest to La Paz: Cerralvo ...
While the indigenous Pericues Indians have called Los Cabos their home for centuries, maybe even a millennium, the relatively new history of the area has only been around for a few hundred years. A visit to local museums will enlighten visitors to the local culture through myriad... Learn More.
Short Cabo San Lucas History. During the colonial time, sailors knew the coast of Baja California very well. Galleons loaded with silks, pearls and spices, which traveled between Manila and Acapulco stored up on water and food supplies – hunting wild animals – at an estuary, next to the mouth of a river, close by a place, which now is San ...
Cabo San Lucas History Facts and Timeline (Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, Mexico) The first archaeological evidence of human settlement near Cabo San Lucas dates back over 10,000 years in history.