Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
View of San Carlos Bay, Sonora San Carlos marina at dusk 27°57′43″N 111°02′14″W / 27.9619°N 111.0372°W / 27.9619; -111.0372 San Carlos is a beachfront subdivision within the port city of Guaymas , but is considered its own town in the northern state of Sonora in Mexico
The Gulf of California (Spanish: Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.
Map of the municipality in Sonora. As municipal seat, the city of Guaymas is the governing authority for more than 1,500 other communities, [17] the most populous of which are Bahía San Carlos, Pueblo Vícam, San Ignacio Río Muerto, Pótam, Bahía de los Lobos and Ortíz. The municipality has a territory of 12,206.18km2.
Beaches here include Sandy Beach, Las Conchas, El Mirador, La Choya, Playa Encanto, Estero de Morúa, Playa La Joya, Playa Miramar, and Playa San Jorge. Sandy Beach is noted for its sand which is a light brown color. [12] One attraction of the beaches is the tidal pools. Tides here can raise and lower the sea on the relatively flat land up to 8 ...
San Pedro Nolasco Island, sometimes called Seal Island, is a small and rugged Mexican island in the Gulf of California. It is 4.2 km long by 1 km wide, and lies 15 km from the nearest point of the Mexican coast and about 28 km west of the resort town of San Carlos on the coast of the Sonoran Desert .
Satellite view of the Gulf of California, between the Baja California Peninsula (left/west) and mainland northwestern Mexico (right/east). The Gulf of California — a gulf of the Pacific Ocean, part of the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Also known as the Sea of Cortez, Sea of Cortés, Vermilion Sea, Mar de Cortés, Mar Bermejo, and Golfo de California.
The arch of Cabo San Lucas is a distinctive granitic rock formation at the southern tip of Cabo San Lucas, which is itself the extreme southern end of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. [1] The arch is locally known as "El Arco," which means "the arch" in Spanish, or "Land's End." [2] It is here that the Pacific Ocean becomes the Gulf of ...
Isla Ángel de la Guarda, (Guardian Angel Island) also called Archangel Island, is a large uninhabited island in the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) east of Bahía de los Ángeles in northwestern Mexico, separated from the Baja California Peninsula by the Canal de Ballenas (Whales Channel).