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    The Baja California peninsula (Spanish: Península de Baja California, lit. 'Lower California peninsula') is a peninsula in northwestern Mexico. It separates...
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    Baja California (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbaxa kaliˈfoɾnja] ; 'Lower California'), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California (English: Free...
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    the land mass of Mexico, and occupies the southern half of the Baja California Peninsula, south of the 28th parallel, plus the uninhabited Rocas Alijos...
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    The Baja California desert (Spanish: desierto de Baja California) is a desert ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California peninsula. This ecoregion occupies...
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    Montalvo's novel. They named the land California. Initially, California applied only to Baja California Peninsula; however, as Spanish explorers and settlers...
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    cultural center, as well as a major tourist destination on the Baja California Peninsula. Loreto was founded in 1697, when Juan María de Salvatierra founded...
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    the Baja California peninsula to the mainland at Mazatlán and Topolobampo, near Los Mochis. The first European known to have landed in Baja California was...
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    showed Baja California as a peninsula. Rather than many cartographers independently making the same mistake, it is thought that maps of California as an...
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    The list of Baja California Peninsula hurricanes includes all of the tropical cyclones that impacted the Baja California Peninsula, which includes the...
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    Eusebio Kino rediscovered the Baja California peninsula in 1701. Juan de Ugarte later built the first ship in Baja California and explored the area, arriving...
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    The Baja 1000 is an annual Mexican off-road motorsport race held on the Baja California Peninsula. It is one of the most prestigious off-road races in...
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    of the Californias (Spanish: Provincia de las Californias), and later as a collective term for Alta California and the Baja California Peninsula. Originally...
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    Christian doctrine among the Indigenous peoples living on the Baja California peninsula. The missions gave Spain a valuable toehold in the frontier land...
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    Ensenada is a city in Ensenada Municipality, Baja California, situated on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Located on the Bahía de Todos Santos, the city...
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    about 575 mi (925 km) south-southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. 18:00 UTC (12:00 p.m. MDT) at 15°54′N 113°48′W / 15.9°N 113...
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    1931, that encompassed the Baja California peninsula of present-day northwestern Mexico. It replaced the Baja California Province (1773–1824) of the Spanish...
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    that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland. It is bordered by the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, and...
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    Mexico at the Pacific Ocean and its Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez). On the western Baja California peninsula coast, it extends from the border with the...
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    Hurricane Hilary made three landfalls in Mexico – twice on the Baja California peninsula as a tropical storm, and then on the Mexican mainland as a tropical...
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  • up Baja or baja in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Baja or Bája may refer to: Baja California Peninsula, in northwestern Mexico Baja California state...
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    estimated at 200. The Baja California pronghorn was the last subspecies of pronghorn to be described, and is found on the Baja peninsula. Aerial surveys in...
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    The Californias region, which comprises California and the Baja California Peninsula, includes many coastal islands in the Pacific Ocean. California is...
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    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...
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    municipality located at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, in the state of Baja California Sur. It encompasses the two towns of Cabo San...
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  • The Baja 500 is a Mexican off-road motorsport race on the Baja California Peninsula that is sanctioned by SCORE International. The course has remained...
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  • also refer to: Baja California peninsula, in northwestern Mexico Baja California Province (1773–1824), a former province Baja California Territory (1824–1931)...
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    established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula, it had previously comprised the province of Las Californias, but was made a separate province...
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    Peninsular Ranges (category Mountain ranges of Baja California)
    Lower California province) are a group of mountain ranges that stretch 1,500 km (930 mi) from Southern California to the southern tip of the Baja California...
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  • Baja California peninsula Gulf of California, a body of water between the Baja California peninsula and the Mexican mainland University of California, a...
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    currently comprises the Mexican state of Baja California, located in the northern part of the Baja California peninsula. In December 1930, the Mexican Congress...
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