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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Guaycuras Eco-Retreat | BajaMex Realty
Guaycuras Ecological Retreat Center, with more than 250 miles of hiking trails near Baja's Sierra de La Giganta mountain range, is being designed for "sustainable eco-tourism" for unforgettable, healthy and environmentally friendly Baja adventures for visitors.
Guaycuras will offer Aroma therapy so visitors can be touched by the power of the natural oils and substances.
Guaycuras is expected to fill what has been developing into a high demand in the tourism marketplace.
www.bajamexrealty.com /guaycuras/index.shtml   (552 words)

  
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Modern American California, for example, owes the Guaycura nation a special debt, for the suppression of its missions and the exile of its people were due, in part, to free up resources to found the new California missions in the north.
The land of the Guaycuras is, in fact, a microcosm of human history from its hunter-gatherers onward, and it turns out to be a surprisingly well-documented one so we are afforded the double pleasure of discovering a small piece of history, and reflecting on what larger lessons it has to teach us.
For Clemente Guillén, the Guaycura nation was these uncontacted bands who lived south of Loreto where the present highway leaves the Gulf coast and climbs into the Sierra de la Giganta, and north of La Paz, for this was to be his own mission territory.
www.innerexplorations.com /catsimple/exped1.htm   (5291 words)

  
 Exped5
identical to the Pericú and linguistically distinct from the Guaycura.
These people spoke Guaycura, which was the same language spoken by the Callejues in the south.
It seems fair to conclude that the available evidence is sufficient to show that no relationship between Guaycura and either the Cochimí or the Yuman family exists which is as close as the relationship between the two latter groups.
www.innerexplorations.com /catsimple/exped5.htm   (3864 words)

  
 Baja California SUR :. Paradise Between two Seas
Prior to the arrival of the Spanish in Baja California, the peninsula was inhabited by nomadic indigenous groups like the Pericúes in the south, the guaycuras in the center, the cochimies in the north and several other clans that remain unknown to this day.
The presence of these nomadic groups is attested to by rock paintings discovered in mountainous areas throughout the state.
Baja California Sur is the birthplace for Gray Whales (Eschrichtius robustus).
www.explorebajasur.com   (162 words)

  
 Pericu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Pericu and Guaycuras of the pre-Spanish period until the late 16th century were strict hunter-gatherers and lived at the southernmost tip of the remote Californian peninsula.
The thirty-three Pericu skulls kept by the Regional Museum of La Paz in Baja California Sur in Mexico and the National Museum of Anthropology and History in Mexico City and recently measured and analyzed, belong to a population that had, until now, been thought to have been an aberrant Amerind group.
As has happened so many times before and after, the attentions of the self-appointed saviours and civilizers (be they missionaries or bureaucrats, well-meaning or malicious) proved lethal to their charges.
www.andaman.org /book/chapter53/pericu/pericu.htm   (879 words)

  
 History of the Baja Peninsula
As a result of their isolated location, the Baja California Indians were found to be among the most primitive in the Americas.
The early Spanish conquerors encountered three tribal groups, the Pericues, the Guaycuras and the Cochimies.
As the original Cape locals who roamed the region as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they were surprisingly able to fight off European diseases until the 17th century.
www.cabo.com /Baja_history.html   (726 words)

  
 AINU? [Archive] - Stormfront White Nationalist Community
The Pericu- Guaycuras Population Group from the Southern Tip of the Baja California Peninsula.
The first contacts by Europeans with the Pericu- Guaycuras group were documented in the first half of the 16th century.
The Guaycuras must have heard of killings and this seriously influenced their future behavior toward the Jesuit missionaries in the following decades.
www.stormfront.org /archive/t-1481091/t-142839AINU?.html   (6097 words)

  
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Estimates of population vary, however 50,000 seems to be the most accepted.
These two groups are however similar to Pacific island inhabitants, leading some experts to speculate, that their ancestors came from a Pacific island center.
There are not any known direct descendants of the Pericues or Guaycuras alive.
www.parkridge.k12.nj.us /mmuller/bajamexhist.htm   (1150 words)

  
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On May 3 rd 1535, Hernán Cortés gave by name to the place Bay of Santa Cruz in honour to the date of his arrival.
By agreement of the king of Spain, Sebastian Vizcaíno was commissioned in 1596 to explore with scientific and recognition aims the peninsula of California, disembarking in the Bay of Santa Cruz, which he re-baptized, due the pacific manifestations of the guaycuras natives who lived in the region, with the name of La Paz.
On September 15 th 1810, Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla shut the shout of independence, exhorting Mexicans to free themselves of the Spanish yoke.
www.constellationservices.com.mx /ingcabos.htm   (570 words)

  
 Cabo San Lucas Mexico - History
The Guaycuras were the first to live in the Cape Area - Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
What we do know is when then Spanish arrived the Guaycuras divided into three groups: Pericu, Huchiti and Guaicura tribes.
With the Pericu living in the area we call today - Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
www.cometocabo.com /cabo_san_lucas_mexico.html   (377 words)

  
 Febuary 2005
The extreme south was inhabited by the Pericues, the middle Lower Peninsula was inhabited by the Guaycuras, and the north by the Cochimies.
These two groups are however similar to Pacific island inhabitants, leading some experts to speculate, that their ancestors came from a Pacific island center.
There are not any known direct descendants of the Pericues or Guaycuras alive.
www.truetraveler.com /february_2005.htm   (3886 words)

  
 Luxury Condos in La Paz
The Gran Baja will soon to be renovated into condominiums and begin selling by year end.
La Paz is a beautiful, charming Mexican town whose history and strong values date back when it was inhabited by small ethnic groups called Guaycuras, Cochimíes and Pericues.
Even though many consider Hernan Cortés the discoverer of Baja California Sur, it was Fortún Jimenez who first saw and explored what was originally thought to be an island.
www.bajainsider.com /baja-real-estate/baja_sur/la-paz/gran-baja-resort.htm   (1469 words)

  
 First Farm Workers
They roughly divided into two groups: the Guaycuras, who lived south of Loreto, the main supply port and mission town midpoint on the eastern coast of the Baja peninsula, and the Cochimíes, who lived to the north.
The later were the more dependable and, according to the padres, had a "noble nature" and made the best field hands, while the former, especially the Pericu branch of the southernmost Guaycuras left the worst record as far as the padres were concerned.
Furthermore, the more northerly Cochimí tribes spoke a Yuman dialect that proved useful in dealing with other natives.
www.cogweb.ucla.edu /Chumash/Street.html   (9365 words)

  
 First Farm Workers
They roughly divided into two groups: the Guaycuras, who lived south of Loreto, the main supply port and mission town midpoint on the eastern coast of the Baja peninsula, and the Cochimíes, who lived to the north.
The later were the more dependable and, according to the padres, had a "noble nature" and made the best field hands, while the former, especially the Pericu branch of the southernmost Guaycuras left the worst record as far as the padres were concerned.
Furthermore, the more northerly Cochimí tribes spoke a Yuman dialect that proved useful in dealing with other natives.
cogweb.ucla.edu /Chumash/Street.html   (9365 words)

  
 Baja Real Estate | Businesses | BajaMex Realty
Selling price: $36 million USD or $9 per square meter.
Guaycuras Ecological Retreat: Seeking investors and interested parties for development of eco-tourist retreat on Mexico's Sea of Cortez near the city of La Paz in Baja California Sur.
Downtown Cabo San Lucas Income Property: Great three-story corner income property, one block from Hard Rock Cafe, with approximately 8,575 square feet of detailed construction and private parking.
www.bajamexrealty.com /listings.shtml   (262 words)

  
 Baja California Home
Find out how much your money is worth in Mexican Pesos.
The native people of the Baja peninsula belonged to three major groups: The Cochimi in northern Baja, the Guaycuras in the central section and the Pericues in the cape region.
These people were hunter-gatherers and spent their days hunting small animals and fishing and gathering wild foods such as pine nuts and cactus fruit.
www.questconnect.org /baja_california.htm   (4829 words)

  
 AsiaFinest Discussion Board -> The Orang Utangs
Person i would like to be hardcore friends with: MCJA (scrambled for his protection)
Luzia retained the features of the negrito/original homo sapiens people who migrated from africa and the pericus and guaycuras are the north american relatives of luzia pericus are hunter gatherers the pericus are made to be extinct by the spaniards because they revolted however the guaycuras were absorbed by an another population
This post has been edited by dalawapo: May 15 2004, 04:30 AM
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=6155   (2153 words)

  
 The Hidden Magic of Baja California
Come visit this other Baja California with us.
The area between La Paz and Ciudad Constitución is one of the least known parts of Baja California Sur, but this ancient land of the Guaycuras is rich in history.
An Expedition to the Guaycura Nation in the Californias: Book Online
www.innerexplorations.com /baja.htm   (164 words)

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