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Spanish Roman Catholic missions among the Pericúes. The Pericú people's territory was along the southern edge of the Baja California Peninsula, from Cabo San Lucas east to Cabo Pulmo, together with the large Gulf of California Islands of Cerralvo, Espíritu Santo, La Partida, and San José.
California Indian Languages. Laylander, Don. 1997. "The linguistic prehistory of Baja California". In Contributions to the Linguistic Prehistory of Central and Baja California, edited by Gary S. Breschini and Trudy Haversat, pp. 1–94. Coyote Press, Salinas, California. Massey, William C. 1949. "Tribes and languages of Baja California".
It is not closely related to other known languages. Several businesses in Baja California Sur preserve the name of the Guaycura A few people self-identified as Guaycura were still alive in the late 19th century. In 1883, Dutch anthropologist Herman ten Kate met two full-blooded Guaycura in Todos Santos. Both had the dolichocephalic skulls ...
The Baja California peninsula (Spanish: Península de Baja California, lit. 'Lower California peninsula') is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico. It separates the Gulf of California from the Pacific Ocean. The peninsula extends from Mexicali, Baja California, in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, in the south.
1850 map: Baja California Territory in yellow (left). Baja California Territory (Territorio de Baja California) was a Mexican territory from 1824 to 1853, and 1854 to 1931, that encompassed the Baja California peninsula of present-day northwestern Mexico. It replaced the Baja California Province (1773–1824) of the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty ...
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Baja California, [a] [b] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California, [c] is a state in Mexico.It is the northwesternmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. . Before becoming a state in 1952, the area was known as the North Territory of Baja California (Territorio Norte de Baja Californ