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4 unusual facts about Baja California Peninsula


Dylan Donkin

On a road trip to Mexico's Baja California peninsula, Donkin and Brian Sagrafena recorded some rough demos that, when they came home, eventually caught Newsted's attention, who then offered to help out on bass guitar and assist the songwriting.

Family Flight

The film stars Rod Taylor and centers on a family whose plane crash-lands in the Baja California peninsula.

Papilio zelicaon

The usual range of the Anise Swallowtail extends from British Columbia and North Dakota at its northern extreme, south to the Baja California peninsula and other parts of Mexico.

San Lucan Skink

The San Lucan Skink (Plestiodon lagunensis) is a skink (a type of lizard) native to the Baja California peninsula.


Ciudad Constitución

Autotransportes Águila is a bus line which covers all the length of the Baja California Peninsula, mainly along Mexican Federal Highway 1 (also known as "Carretera Transpeninsular"), and has an office in Ciudad Constitución.

Copper rockfish

It is very widespread in its distribution, known from the very northern reaches of the Gulf of Alaska, to the Pacific side of the Baja California peninsula, north of Guerrero Negro.

Coromuel

The Coromuel wind is a weather phenomenon unique to the La Paz area of the Baja California peninsula and adjoining Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez).

La Misión, Baja California

La Misión or Misión de San Miguel is a village in Baja California located on Mexican Federal Highway 1 approximately 2 km south of Poco Cielo hotel on the Gold Coast of the Baja California peninsula.

Phantom island

The Baja California peninsula appears on some early maps as an island but was later discovered to be attached to the mainland of North America; likewise Banks Peninsula off the South Island of New Zealand which was originally called "Banks Island" by Captain James Cook.

Pueblo de Los Ángeles

The Los Angeles parish was under the Diocese of Sonora until 1840, when a new Diocese of the Two Californias was established to serve the Baja California Peninsula and Alta California.

Todos los Santos, Baja California Sur

Todos Santos is a small coastal town at the foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna Mountains, on the Pacific coast side of the Baja California Peninsula, about an hour's drive north of Cabo San Lucas on Highway 19 and an hour's drive southwest from La Paz.


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