BAJA CALIFORNIA
More than 600 miles long, the peninsula stretches from cool California waters all the way into the tropics, indeed, the Tropic of Cancer crosses the road from San Jose del Cabo to La Paz at the far southern point of land.
It's bordered by the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California, which is alternately known as the "Sea of Cortez", named for Herman Cortez, a 16th century Spanish explorer. |
As a result, the marine life varies from the cold rocky kelp forests in the north on the Pacific coast near San Diego to a true coral reef at Cabo Pulmo on the Sea of Cortez side between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas. The Sea of Cortez is millions of years old, formed by the slow north-west movement of the Pacific Plate carrying Baja California away from the Mexican mainland and splitting open the land to form the long finger-like Gulf of California and stretches almost 700 miles between Baja California and the mainland of Mexico. In a way, the Sea of Cortez is like two seas in one.
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The Sea of Cortez is a unique natural wonder. Dubbed as “Galapagos of North America” by Jacques Cousteau, the region has a rich marine and terrestrial biodiversity with many species found nowhere else on earth. Unique oceanographic and geologic features help make the Sea of Cortez one of the most diverse and prolific seas in the world, where thousands of tropical and temperate animal species are well represented.
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There is a wide variety of habitats:
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