Sea of Cortes


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Noun1.Sea of Cortes - a gulf to the west of the mainland of Mexico
Mexico, United Mexican States - a republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810
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Gracing the calm shores of the Sea of Cortes, Amanvari is scheduled to open in 2020.
Mexico is part of the select list of 17 megadiverse countries in the world: in the Mexican Republic one can find reefs, deserts, jungles, forests, mangroves, mountains, snowy volcanoes, caves, islands, coasts in two oceans, a gulf and two seas (one of them, the Sea of Cortes, considered the aquarium of the world).
The Mexican government has extended for a brief period the fishing restrictions imposed two years ago to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise in the northern areas of the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortes, and in the Colorado River Delta (SourceMex, March 25, 2015, and Sept.
Despite hunting all over the continents, I hadn't even seen a brant in years, and the idea of hunting Pacific black brant right on the Sea of Cortes across from Baja in late winter was more than I could stand.
The East Cape is a gorgeous stretch of mostly undeveloped coastline that runs nearly 100 miles east and north along the Sea of Cortes. The main lures for visitors are the East Cape's small towns, full of local color, prime windsurfing and sportfishing opportunities and a spectacular marine park.
Fresno, CA, October 14, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The line offers Un-cruise Adventures aboard expedition boats and upscale yachts in Southeast Alaska, Hawaiian Islands, Mexico's Sea of Cortes, Coastal Washington and British Columbia, and Columbia and Snake Rivers.
Fifty years ago, you'd be hard-pressed to find a place to stay on what was then an isolated tip of rocky desert separating the Pacific Ocean from the Sea of Cortes. Now, it's Mexico's most upscale resort, surpassing rival destinations like Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta and Cancun.
Beginning with early explorations at the northernmost reach of the Sea of Cortes, the narrative, like a bark of yore, stops at a succession of twenty-one historic anchorages on both of the peninsula's coastlines.
On 26 January 1937, almost 400 protesters, tired of waiting for the Baja California state government to process their demands for land, seized several ranches owned by the US-based Colourado River Land Company in Mexico's Mexicali Valley between the American border and the Sea of Cortes. Over the next two months, Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas responded to the crisis by redistributing 200,000 acres of CRLC land to Mexican peasants and field hands.
These preventative measures coupled with Los Cabos' isolated location at the end of the 1,000-mile long Baja Peninsula and separated from mainland Mexico by the Sea of Cortes have helped the region remain free of the H1N1 virus.