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	Baja Highway : Drive the Baja California Peninsula
		is the lifeline of the Baja California Peninsula.
		Baja is a jagged finger of mountains and desert ripped from the Mexican mainland along the San Andreas fault by millions of years of geologic violence.
		Baja California is isolated on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the east by the Sea of Cortez, whose blue waters fill the deep chasm between Baja and the rest of Mexico.
	cabobob.baja.com /bajahwy.htm (996 words)

	Baja California (peninsula) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Baja California (peninsula), peninsula, northwestern Mexico, comprising the states of Baja California and Baja California Sur, lying between the...
		Baja California (state, Mexico) or Lower California, state in northwestern Mexico occupying the northern half of the peninsula of Baja California....
		California, Gulf of, arm of the Pacific Ocean, separating the peninsula of Baja California from the mainland of Mexico.
	encarta.msn.com /Baja_California_(peninsula).html (170 words)

	CPD: Middle America, Site MA12, Central Region of Baja California Peninsula, Mexico
		This desert is the driest and sunniest biotic zone in Baja California, being in the rain shadow of the northern highest mountains.
		The Baja California Peninsula is recognized as an area of moderate endemism (Rzedowski 1993), with approximately 10 genera and 20% of the species, and many of these peninsular endemics are present in the central region (Wiggins 1980).
		In Symposium: The biogeography of Baja California and adjacent seas.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/ma/ma12.htm (2708 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Baja California Peninsula or Lower California is a peninsula in the west of Mexico.The Peninsula is considered territory of Northern America.
		The Spanish gave the name "California" to the peninsula and to the lands north, including both Baja California and Alta California, the region that became parts of the present-day U.S. states of California, Nevada, and others.
		Baja California Norte, while it is a well-established term for the northern half of the Baja California peninsula, it's political usage is incorrect due Baja California Norte has never existed as a political entity (State, Territory, District).
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Baja_California_peninsula (737 words)

	Baja California, peninsula, Mexico. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		28° N into the state of Baja California in the north, and the state of Baja California Sur in the south.
		Baja California Sur is not economically prosperous, although tourism is developing rapidly, particularly around Los Cabos.
		The peninsula and surrounding waters are a paradise for naturalists and archaeologists, offering unparalleled opportunities for the study of marine life, plants and animals, and archaeological artifacts.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ba/BajaCaPen.html (437 words)

	Baja California, Mexico - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The state is bordered on the west and the south by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by the Gulf of California, and on the north by the Mexican state of Baja California.
		Baja California Sur is largely unpopulated and has the least number of residents of any Mexican state.
		Baja California Sur shares much of its history with the state of Baja California; the two did not formally separate until 1930.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /baja_california.htm (569 words)

	BAJA DESERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Baja California peninsula of Mexico is a long finger of land about 150 km wide and extending 1,300 km south from the border with California in the USA to the Tropic of Cancer near its southern tip.
		For most of its length this peninsula is separated from mainland Mexico (the province of Sonora) by the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortex).
		The deserts of Baja California are further south than those of the USA, with a milder, subtropical climate where frosts seldom occur at the lower elevations.
	helios.bto.ed.ac.uk /bto/desertecology/bajacali.htm (426 words)

	First Contacts in Baja California
		Jiménez and the mutineers continued the voyage and landed at the Bay of La Paz on the Baja California peninsula.
		Believing that the Baja California peninsula was an island, Ulloa searched in vain for a passage through to the open sea.
		Ulloa's voyage extended European knowledge of the lower regions of "the Californias" and should have proved unequivocally that Baja California was a peninsula and not an island.
	www.californiahistory.net /3_PAGES/baja_main.htm (563 words)

	Baja California Peninsula Mexico: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		28U+00B0 N into the state of Baja California in the north, and the state of Baja California Sur in the south.
		Acknowledgments...rincon of the peninsula with us...Rupestre Baja California Sur received...Evolution of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
		The peninsula is divided...state of Baja California...1847 48) Baja California during the...wrest it from Mexico in his first...Zapata.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/baja-california-peninsula-mexico.jsp?l=B&p=1 (1917 words)

	Baja California Home
		Both Baja California and Baja California Sur have higher per-capita income than any of the other Mexican states with the exception of the Distrito Federal (the state that Mexico City is in).
		The states of Baja California are in a unique position economically from the rest of the country.
		The original draft of the treaty included Baja California, but the US agreed with Mexico’s request to not cede Baja because their coast faced the state of Sonora and was only separated by a short distance of water.
	www.questconnect.org /baja_california.htm (4844 words)

	Baja California
		It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Baja California Norte to distinguish it from the Baja California peninsula, of which it forms the northern half, and Baja California Sur, which forms the southern half of the peninsula.
		1804: The Spanish colony of California is divided into Alta ("upper") and Baja ("lower") California at the line separating the Franciscan missions in the north from the Dominican missions in the south.
		In 1850, after Alta California is annexed by the United States, Baja California is further divided into northern and southern territories.
	www.baja-relocation.com /baja_california.htm (384 words)

	Tour By Mexico ® - Baja California Norte State --- 1
		Baja California is bounded on the north by the American States of California and Arizona; at the northeast tip by
		Baja California has a population of approximately 2'487,367 inhabitants.
		The climate of Baja California is hot and dry, but the state's geographical location, to the north of the Tropic of Cancer, gives it a well defined winter.
	www.tourbymexico.com /bcn/bcnpri.htm (270 words)

	Baja California Fast Facts \| Planeta
		The world's third-longest peninsula, Baja California is located in northwestern Mexico, separated from the rest of the country by the Sea of Cortez.
		The Baja California peninsula is comprised of two states, Baja California and Baja California Sur, separated by the 28th parallel.
		Journalist David Brackney is a travel writer for the Automobile Club of Southern California, who specializes in Baja California.
	www.planeta.com /ecotravel/mexico/baja/dbfacts.html (209 words)

	baja peninsula map
		The Baja Peninsula (Baja California Peninsula) extends from Tijuana, near the U.S. border, to Cabo San Lucas - approximately 747 miles, (1202 km).
		Archaeologists have concluded that the peninsula was separated from mainland Mexico by the San Andreas Fault, and over eons of time, the eastern edges were uplifted by tectonic plate movements and the lower areas then filled with sea water, thus forming the Gulf of California.
		The peninsula is mountainous, especially in the north and far south, and those mountains ring an inhospitable, rocky (and hot) desert landscape.
	worldatlas.com /aatlas/infopage/baja.htm (322 words)

	Baja California, Mexico
		The cardón is nearly endemic to the deserts of the Baja California peninsula.
		The elephant trees of Baja have pinnate leaves that typically turn yellow and are shed in drought conditions, but the plants can still photosynthesize through the stems of the trunk and major branches, which have a white, papery bark overlying the green photosynthetic tissues.
		The other common elephant tree of Baja California is Pachycormus discolor, named “pachy-“ or “thick” for their gnarly trunks which look like elephant legs (elephants are pachyderms, meaning “thick-skinned”).
	www.photoseek.com /MexicoBaja.html (1669 words)

	Baja California Peninsula
		Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, highlighted in this Envisat image, lies at the southern tip of North America and is surrounded by water with the Gulf of California, also referred to as the Sea of Cortés, to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the West.
		Baja California, which rides on the eastern edge of the Pacific Plate, was torn away from mainland Mexico by the San Andreas Fault.
		The peninsula, the second-longest on Earth spanning over 1 220 kilometres, is situated in close proximity to the Pacific and North American tectonic plate boundaries, which go up the Gulf of California toward the Salton Sea and the San Andreas Fault.
	earth.esa.int /cgi-bin/satimgsql.pl?pf=1464 (496 words)

	bajacalifology.org - Cultural Anthropology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The rich cultural heritage of the Baja California peninsula has been shaped by its unique geography and ecosystems, a history of isolation and migration, and peoples as rugged and tenacious as the land itself.
		For the vast majority of human history in the peninsula, native populations have adapted their lives to the arid climate and its coastal, desert and mountain habitats through annual cycles of hunting, gathering and fishing.
		Approximately 1000 Native Baja Californians live in eight indigenous communities of the northern peninsula: the Kumiai in Juntas de Nejí, San Jose de la Zorra, San Antonio Necua and La Huerta; the Paipai in Santa Catarina and San Isidoro; the Cucapá in El Mayor Cucapá and the Kiliwa in Ejido Tribu Kiliwas.
	www.bajacalifologia.org /english/cultural.htm (554 words)

	bajacalifology.org - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This would be the first of a long series of missions to be founded on the Baja California peninsula, which was then known simply as California.
		Between 1697 and 1767 the Jesuits founded 16 missions, encompassing practically all of what is today Baja California Sur and beginning their northward expansion with the establishment of Santa Gertrudis, San Francisco Borja and Santa María de los Ángeles.
		Among the numerous detailed modern accounts for the various periods of Baja California's history, the writings of Pablo L. Martínez (1956), W. Michael Mathes (1977), Ignacio del Río (1984, 1985), and Harry Crosby (1994) are fundamental, along with general works such as that of David Piñera Ramírez (1983a).
	www.bajacalifologia.org /english/history.htm (796 words)

	Baja California's Peninsulas Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bahia de L.A. The Baja California peninsula is one of the most gifted places on Earth, offering a wide variety of activities in its urban areas as well as the unique natural beauty of its inner and coastal lands.
		The State of Baja California is located in the Northwest México, in the northern part of the Baja California peninsula.
		The Baja California peninsula is 781 miles long with an average width of 56 miles, making Baja California one of largest peninsulas in the world.
	www.mybajaguide.com /AboutBaja.php (290 words)

	Bajawild - About the company
		Baja Wild is an Eco-Tourism Company whose objective is to ecologically promote and preserve the natural wonders of the Baja California Peninsula by providing high quality tours and expeditions, precisely in the Los Cabos area.
		Baja Wild's mission is to provide the highest quality service with the utmost regard for the client's safety in order to succesfully attain the goals set.
		To meet these objectives, Baja Wild has hired the most qualified tour guides and instructors, as well as utilizing top of the line equipment for all the eco-activities, which have been carefully and meticulously planned to fulfill the client’s expectations as well as preserve the local ecosystems.
	www.bajawild.com /en/about_us.html (178 words)

	SDNHM - Baja California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Baja California, along the southwestern edge of North America, lies between the latitudes of 32 degrees 30 minutes and 23 degrees—a range where deserts occur worldwide, both in the northern and southern hemispheres.
		The Baja California peninsula, about 760 miles (over 1220 kilometers) in length, is almost completely surrounded by water, with the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortés) to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
		For a video animation and an illustrated step-by-step summary of the geological process that formed the peninsula, beginning in the Late Jurassic period—140 million years ago—see "Plate Tectonics: How Baja California and the Sea of Cortés were Formed."
	www.oceanoasis.org /fieldguide/bajacalifornia.html (130 words)

	Baja Life Online's ECOWATCH
		Baja Life Magazine supports the protection and management of Baja California's magnificent natural resources.
		As a means to provide information to our readers, our staff at Baja Life Online has created this website to continually update you on the many to balance the use of the resources; protecting them in a way that sustains and provides for existing and future populations.
		A yacht rests in the port of Bahia de los Angeles in the Mexican state of Baja California.
	www.bajalife.com /ecowatch/nauticalstairs.html (734 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Baja California desert (NA1301)
		The Baja California Desert ecoregion occurs on the western portion of the Baja California peninsula, and occupies most of the Mexican states of Baja California Sur and Baja California Norte.
		The peninsula’s isolation is largely responsible for the high levels of endemism and diversity.
		The close relationship between animals and cacti in the Baja California Desert is recognized as an important ecological process for maintaining the diversity of both groups (Challenger 1998).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na1301_full.html (1204 words)

	Baja California
		ollowing its "discovery" by Europeans in late 1533 or early 1534, the peninsula now named Baja California was visited by a variety of explorers and missionaries, few of whom found much to admire.
		Jesuit Father Johann Jakob Baegert, who spent 17 years in Baja as a missionary in the mid-1700s, described the peninsula in harsh terms, "Everything concerning [Baja] California is of such little importance that it is hardly worth the trouble to take a pen and write about it.
		Burrs with barbed thorns cover the ground; the very grass, wherever it grows, resents the touch with wasp-like stings that fester in the flesh; and poisonous weeds tempt the hungry animals with their verdure, producing craziness and death.
	www.baja-web.com /history/main-his.html (224 words)

	Pro Peninsula - Did you know?
		Loggerhead turtles travel all the way from their nesting habitat in Japan to the coast of the Baja California peninsula where they feed.
		Click here to follow the journey of one such turtle, Adelita as she was tracked by satellite on her voyage across the Pacific Ocean.
		Pro Peninsula supports the Grupo Tortuguero and Proyecto Caguama in their efforts to stem the tide of sea turtle mortality.
	www.propeninsula.org /dyk/1/8.html (211 words)

	Baja by Motorcycle - Southwest Adventure Tours, LLC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Baja Peninsula is the longest land arm of its type in the world and Mexico's last frontier.
		The diverse and varied landscapes of Baja California are beautiful and breathtaking, and make for interesting sights along the way.
		This part of the peninsula is one of the most isolated areas and a very unique experience.
	www.bajabymoto.com /TourInfo.html (1118 words)

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