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Tiburón Island is part of the traditional homeland of some bands (or clans) of the Seri people, for many centuries if not millennia. [5] Author Charles Marion Tyler described the island in his 1885 book The Island World of the Pacific Ocean, saying that "little is known [of the island], a hostile tribe of Indians being in possession."
The majority reside on the Seri communal property (Spanish: ejido), in the towns of Punta Chueca (Seri: Socaaix) and El Desemboque (Seri: Haxöl Iihom) on the mainland coast of the Gulf of California. Tiburón Island (Tahejöc) and San Esteban Island (Cofteecöl and sometimes Hast) were also part of their traditional territory. They maintain an ...
Tiburon (Spanish Tiburón, "shark") may refer to: Places. ... Tiburón Island, an island in the Gulf of California; Haiti. Tiburon Peninsula, Haiti, ...
Tiburon is the nearest mainland point to Angel Island and a regular ferry service from the Tiburon Ferry Terminal connects to the island. Tiburon features numerous small boutiques and restaurants, catering to local residents and tourists. Most of the town's restaurants are located on or near Main Street, near the Tiburon Ferry Terminal.
Mexican ironwood carving is a Mexican tradition of carving the wood of the Olneya tesota tree, a Sonora Desert tree commonly called ironwood (palo fierro in Spanish). Olneya tesota is a slow growing important shade tree in northwest Mexico and the southwest U.S. The wood it produces is very dense and sinks in water.
San Esteban Island (Spanish: Isla San Esteban, Seri: Coftéecöl [koɸˈtɛːkʷɬ] and sometimes Hast) [1] is a small island in the Gulf of California, Mexico, located to the southwest of Tiburón Island. It is part of the Municipality of Hermosillo in Sonora and has a land area of 39.773 km 2 (15.356 sq mi), the 15th-largest island in Mexico ...
In 1751, Oacpicagigua led the Pima Revolt against the Spanish. [3] The revolt failed in 1752, Oacpicagigua and his lieutenant Luis of Pitic were summoned for questioning and subsequently arrested, and Oacpicagigua died in Horcasitas jail in 1755. [4] Oacpicagigua's two sons, Ciprián and Nicolás, continued to lead revolts after their father's ...
The island was thus united from "Cape Tiburon to Cape Samana in possession of one government." [31] Upon unification of both French-side (Haitï) and Spanish-side (then Spanish Haiti) nations under the Haitian flag, Boyer divided the island into six departments, that were subdivided into arrondissements (administrative districts) and communes.