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The Gulf of California (Spanish: Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (Mar de Cortés) or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (Mar Vermejo), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California peninsula from the Mexican mainland.
In 1974, the Mexican government designated portions of the upper Gulf and lower Colorado River Delta as a reserve zone. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated over 12,000 km 2 (3,000,000 acres) of Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Biosphere Reserve as a Biosphere Nature reserve in
Baja California was mistakenly thought to be an island rather than a peninsula. The Californias region, which comprises California and the Baja California Peninsula, includes many coastal islands in the Pacific Ocean. California is in the United States; and the Baja California Peninsula includes the Mexican states of Baja California Sur and ...
Map of California, c. 1650, by Johannes Vingboons; restored. The compass rose in the center of the map marks the approximate location of the modern Mexico–United States border, south of San Diego. The "Island of California", on a 1650 map by Nicolas Sanson A satellite view of the Baja California peninsula and the Gulf of California
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.
Gulf of California, in the Pacific Ocean in northwestern Mexico; Gulf of the Farallones, between the Farallon Islands and the mainland coast of California, United States; Gulf of Fonseca, of the Pacific Ocean in El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua; Gulf of Gonâve, in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Haiti
Isla Tortuga (Tortuga Island) is an island in the Gulf of California, created relatively recently in geologic terms by the volcanism associated with the East Pacific Rise. It lies east-northeast of the city of Santa Rosalía, in Mulegé Municipality. It has a surface area of 11.374 km 2 (4.39 sq mi). [1]
It is located on the eastern coast of the Gulf of California approximately 60 miles south of the Arizonan border, only about a four-hour drive from Phoenix or Tucson. [17] The city's maximum elevation is 100 meters (328 feet) above sea level and its minimum is 0 meters (0 feet) above sea level.