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From 1951 to 2000, Pacific hurricanes most frequently struck the northwestern Mexican states Baja California Sur or Sinaloa, as well as Michoacán in southern Mexico. Atlantic hurricanes during the same period were most likely to hit Quintana Roo along the eastern Yucatán peninsula and Veracruz along the Bay of Campeche .
In the period 1951 to 2000, Baja California had one hurricane and three tropical storms make landfall. During the same period, Baja California Sur witnessed nineteen hurricanes and thirty tropical storms. During the same time period, the region got hit by two major hurricanes (Hurricane Oliva in 1967 and Hurricane Kiko in 1989). [1]
Hurricane Norma was one of four tropical cyclones to strike the Pacific Coast of Mexico in October 2023. The seventeenth tropical depression, fourteenth named storm, ninth hurricane and seventh major hurricane [a] of the 2023 Pacific hurricane season, Norma developed from an area of low pressure that formed off the coast of southern Mexico on October 15, 2023.
Laguna Salada (Spanish, "salty lagoon") is a vast dry lake some 10 meters below sea level in the Sonoran Desert of Baja California, 30 km (19 mi) southwest of Mexicali. [1] This lake was called "Ha wi mək" in Cocopah language and "Ha-sa-ai" in Kumeyaay language.
The largest municipality by population is Veracruz, with 607,209 residents (7.53% of the state's total), while the smallest is Landero y Coss with 1,543 residents. [2] The largest municipality by land area is Las Choapas which spans 3,508.90 km 2 (1,354.79 sq mi), and the smallest is Oteapan with 4.60 km 2 (1.78 sq mi). [ 3 ]
Name Image Location coordinates Year built Tower height () Focal height () Range () NGA Number Arrecife Santiaguillo Lighthouse [3] : Arrecife Santiaguillo
Southern California Coastal–Baja California is a freshwater ecoregion in Western North America. It encompasses parts of central and southern California, west of the Coast Ranges, and the majority of Mexico 's Baja California Peninsula , extending from the southern end of Monterey Bay to the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula.
The Huasteca Baja region is one of the regions of the Mexican state of Veracruz. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of the broader Huasteca region that comprises parts of the states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Puebla, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro and Guanajuato.