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3 unusual facts about Todos Santos


Altars in Latin America

On Todos Santos, or All Saints Day, people welcome back the souls of their departed loved ones by offering altars or ofrendas, commemorating them (Read 158-161).

Todos Santos

Tosantos, Spain is a small town along the Camino de Santiago that was originally named Todos Santos

Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, Mayan village in the western highlands


El Pescadero, Baja California Sur

It is located at km 64 on Federal Highway 19 on the Pacific Ocean about 8 kilometers South of Todos Santos which is about a one hour drive north of Cabo San Lucas.

Hans Namuth

Besides famous art figures, Namuth photographed the Mam people of Todos Santos, whose native lifestyles were being overrun by Western influences.


see also

Diadophis punctatus

D. p. anthonyi (Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1942) — Todos Santos Island ring-necked snake

Isla Todos Santos

There is also a subspecies of the California mountain kingsnake, the Todos Santos Island Kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata herrerae (Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1923).

The type species of the fish genus Bajacalifornia, Bajacalifornia burragei, was discovered during the USS Albatross deep sea expedition off the coast of Todos Santos Bay in 1911.

Maud Oakes

These include Where the Two Came to Their Father: A Navaho War Ceremony (given by Jeff King, with commentary by Joseph Campbell), The Two Crosses of Todos Santos: Survivals of Mayan Religious Ritual and Beyond the Windy Place.

Todos los Santos, Baja California Sur

Todos Santos faced a bleak future until, the spring came back to life in 1981 and the Mexican Government paved Highway 19 in the mid 1980s.

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.