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A123B in Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Estado de México, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Tlaxcala and Zacatecas; A 123 B in Guanajuato. ABC12 (following exhaustion of A123B allocation) in Durango, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Michoacán, Quintana Roo and Yucatán; 1234 A in Mexico City Passenger
Rivera Plate. The Rivera Plate is a small tectonic plate (a microplate) located off the west coast of Mexico, just south of the Baja California Peninsula. It is bounded on the northwest by the East Pacific Rise, on the southwest by the Rivera Transform Fault, on the southeast by a deformation zone, and on the northeast by the Middle America ...
Baja California[ note 1] ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja] ⓘ; 'Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (English: Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1952, the ...
Pacific Plate. The Pacific Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean. At 103 million km 2 (40 million sq mi), it is the largest tectonic plate. [ 2] The plate first came into existence as a microplate 190 million years ago, at the triple junction between the Farallon, Phoenix, and Izanagi Plates.
August 29, 1951: A tropical storm made landfall in the northern part of the peninsula. [7] July 17, 1954: A hurricane made landfall on the peninsula. [8] October 5, 1957: A hurricane made landfall on the peninsula. [9] September 11, 1958: A tropical storm made landfall and passed north-northwest over the peninsula.
The Laguna Salada Fault is thought to be the origin of the 2010 Baja California earthquake. Prior to this, the fault had not produced a major earthquake for over 100 years, since 1892. Faults. The Laguna Salada Fault is a probable southern continuation of the Elsinore Fault Zone in Southern California.
Mexican Federal Highway 5. Federal Highway 5 ( Spanish: Carretera Federal 5, Fed. 5) is a tollfree part of the federal highways corridors ( Spanish: los corredores carreteros federales ), and follows the northeast length of the state of Baja California from the US-Mexico border in Mexicali at the northern point at San Felipe in the south.
4,567,467 (2020) 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.