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It is located on the northern shores of the Sea of Cortez on the small strip of land that joins the Baja California Peninsula with the rest of Mexico. [4] The area is part of the Altar Desert, one of the driest and hottest areas of the larger Sonoran Desert. [5] Since the late 1990s, there has been a push to develop the area for tourism.
El Mogote is a sand barrier peninsula opposite the city of La Paz in Baja California Sur, Mexico. The peninsula forms the northern shore of the Bay of La Paz. [2] The peninsula is arid, with extensive dunes at its neck. Clusters of mangroves are established on the southern shore of the peninsula. [3]
Puerto Peñasco is a municipality in the state of Sonora in north-western Mexico. [2] As of 2015, the municipality had a total population of 62,177 inhabitants. [ 1 ] The only locality with a significant population is the municipal seat, also named Puerto Peñasco , which contains almost 99% of the municipality's population.
The peninsula extends from Mexicali, Baja California, in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur, in the south. With a length of 1,247 km (775 miles), its width ranges from 40 km (25 miles) at its narrowest to 320 km (200 miles) at its widest point and has approximately 3,000 km (1,900 miles) of coastline and approximately 65 islands.
Many coastal peninsulas of California are properly headlands and are often called points, as in Oxford English Dictionary's senses 19b "projecting part of anything of a more or less tapering form...a sharp prominence" and 22 "a promontory or cape; the tip of a piece of land running out to sea...frequently in place names."
On the western Baja California peninsula coast, it extends from the border with the United States at Tijuana in the state of Baja California, south to the tip of the peninsula at Cabo San Lucas in the state of Baja California Sur. On the peninsula's eastern coast it extends from the head of the Gulf of California to Cabo San Lucas.
In June 2023, a Ph.D. student from California was found dead in an SUV in Sonora, shot seven times, after going missing when he drove across the border to conduct horticulture research.
Baja California Peninsula (4 C, 12 P) Y. Yucatán Peninsula (8 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Peninsulas of Mexico" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 ...