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San Felipe (Kiliwa: Juwiy mja') [2] is a coastal city in San Felipe Municipality, Baja California, located on the Gulf of California. [3] The population of San Felipe was reported as 17,143 inhabitants in the 2020 Mexican Census. [1] San Felipe is historically a fishing town.
San Felipe is the least populous municipality in Baja California. The areas which now make up the municipality recorded a population of 18,369 inhabitants in the 2010 Mexican Census. [ 2 ] Most of the population lives in the municipal seat of San Felipe which recorded 16,702 inhabitants in 2010, [ 2 ] and 17,143 inhabitants in 2020. [ 15 ]
San Felipe Valley, was home of Native American people and in the 19th century a village site was located in the valley near Scissors Crossing.The land route opened in 1828 between Sonora, Mexico and Alta California, the Sonora Road passed up the valley to Warner's Pass at the top of the valley on its way to Los Angeles.
Warner's Ranch, Ranch House, San Felipe Road , October 1960. Warner's Ranch was a stop on the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line in 1857 and the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line between 1858 and 1860. It was linked to San Diego by the San Diego - Fort Yuma mail route via the road through Santa Isabel to San Diego. Travelers rested here ...
Don Francisco Pérez Pacheco was the grantee of Rancho Ausaymas y San Felipe.. Rancho Ausaymas y San Felipe was a 35,504-acre (14,368 ha) Mexican land grant in present-day San Benito County and Santa Clara County, California a consists of two square leagues (San Felipe) given in 1833 by Governor José Figueroa and two square leagues (Ausaymas) given in 1836 by Governor Nicolás Gutiérrez to ...
The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic basin, and the fourth deadliest hurricane in the United States, only behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane, 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, and Hurricane Maria.
Before this, the Kern River was known as the Río de San Felipe as named by Spanish missionary explorer Francisco Garcés when he explored the Bakersfield area on May 1, 1776. On August 2, 1806, Padre Zavidea renamed the river La Porciúncula for the day of the Porciuncula Indulgence. It was locally known as Po-sun-co-la until its renaming by ...
San Felipe Lake, which is the central feature of the "Bolsa de San Felipe", is designated as a "California Important Bird Area" by the National Audubon Society. The Bolsa is a crossroads for birds migrating between San Francisco Bay to the north, Monterey Bay to the west and the Central Valley to the east.