BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR

soor, state (1990 pop. 317,764), 27,571 sq mi (71,428 sq km), NW Mexico, on the Baja California peninsula. La Paz is the capital. The area is lightly populated and has little arable land. There is some cotton grown commercially and there is significant salt mining in the desert region in the northern portion of the state. Tourism, the economic mainstay, is centered at Los Cabos, an international beach resort area and sport fishing destination at the southern end of the state. Baja California Sur was made a state in 1974.

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books on: Baja California Sur  - 100 results

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1.
Antigua California: Mission and Colony on the Peninsular Frontier, 1697-1768
Book by Harry W. Crosby; University of New Mexico Press, 1994
Subjects: Baja California (Mexico)--History, California--History--To 1846, Indians Of Mexico--Mexico--Baja California--History, Indians Of North America--California--History--18th Century, Jesuits--Missions--California, Jesuits--Missions--Mexico--Baja California, Spaniards--California--History--18th Century
...Arquitectura misional de Baja California Sur . La Paz: Gobierno del Estado de Baja California Sur, 1988. Hittel Theodore H...Paz: Gobierno del Estado de Baja California Sur/Editorial Aristos, 1977...
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California, the Last Frontier
Book by Robert Durrenberger, G. Etzel Pearcy, George W. Hoffman; D. Van Nostrand, 1969
Subjects: California--Description And Travel
...boundary between Alta and Baja California established in the seventeenth...limits of California. The California Constitutional Convention...However, even after California was admitted to the Union...from previous ones, was sur
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The Sea off Southern California: A Modern Habitat of Petroleum
Book by K. O. Emery; Wiley, 1960
Subjects: Marine Biology--Pacific Ocean, Ocean Bottom--Pacific Ocean, Petroleum--Geology--Pacific Ocean, Submarine Geology
...and Cedros Islands, Baja California": Jour. Mammalogy...oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico": Geol...Area, Los Angeles, California for period June 1...continentale: Essai sur les regressions et transgressions...
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Californio Voices: The Oral Memoirs of Jose Maria Amador and Lorenzo Asisara
Book by Jose Maria Amador, Lorenzo Asisara, Gregorio Mora-Torres; University of North Texas Press, 2005
Subjects: Amador, Josae Mariaa--1794-1883--Interviews, Asisara, Lorenzo--B. 1819--Interviews, California--Ethnic Relations, California--History--1846-1850--Biography, California--History--To 1846--Biography, Frontier And Pioneer Life--California, Indians Of North America--Missions--California--History--19th Century, Indians, Treatment Of--California--History--19th Century, Mexicans--California--Interviews
...Sonora y el otro por la de la Baja Califa.33 Se dio por muy vdlido en toda la California que Pico se llevo $22...hubo una sublevaci6n en el Sur que puso a su cabeza al...Jos6 Maria Flores Ileg6 a California en 1842 como secretario...
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Mexico and the United States - Vol. 1
Includes: Acapulco, Guerrero - Film in Mexico
Book by Marshall Cavendish; Marshall Cavendish, 2003
Subjects: Mexico--Relations--United States--Encyclopedias, United States--Relations--Mexico--Encyclopedias
Baja California Sur The state of Baja California Sur is located in northwestern Mexico, on the peninsula of Baja California (see map, page 75). Baja California Sur formally separated from the northern part of the peninsula...
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journal articles on: Baja California Sur  - 47 results

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Sustainable Shrimp Fishery Management Recommendations for a Coastal Lagoon in Baja California Sur, Mexico
Journal article by Samuel Chávez-Rosales, Susan C. Gardner, Alfredo Ortega-Rubio; International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, Vol. 15, 2008
Subjects: Baja California Mexico, Fisheries management, Fishing, Life cycles, Magdalena Bay, Natural resources, Seasons, Sustainable development
...Recommendations for a Coastal Lagoon in Baja California Sur, Mexico by Samuel Chavez...portion of Magdalena Bay, Baja California Sur, Mexico (24 50N and 111 55W...Bay on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, between 24 15 N25 20 N and...
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The Cartographers of Life: Two Centuries of Mapping the Natural History of Baja California
Journal article by Pedro P. Garcillan, Charlotte E. Gonzalez Abraham, Exequiel Ezcurra; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 52, 2010
Subjects: Baja California (Peninsula)--Natural history, Baja California (Peninsula)--Social aspects, Physical geography--Analysis
...the Cape Region in the tip of Baja California Sur. The peninsula rides on the...tropical deciduous forest of Baja California Sur: A floristic and structural...La Sierra de La Laguna de Baja California Sur. Publication No. 1. La Paz...
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Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics, and Conservation in Baja California
Journal article by Wayne N. Engstrom; Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 20, 2003
Subjects: Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics, and Conservation in Baja California (Book)--Reviews
...Gray Whale: People, Politics, and Conservation in Baja California. by Wayne N. Engstrom By Serge Dedina. Tucson...the role of the whale in the lives of the people of Baja California Sur, the history of Mexican gray whale conservation...
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A Regional-scale Sustainable Development Index: the Case of Baja California Sur, Mexico
Journal article by Angel F. Herrera-Ulloa, Anthony T. Charles, Salvador E. Lluch-Cota, Herman Ramirez-Aguirre; International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, Vol. 10, 2003
...Development Index: the Case of Baja California Sur, Mexico by Angel F. Herrera...or even between countries. Baja California Sur (BCS), a Mexican state...The final result is the Baja California Sur Sustainable Development Index...
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Fire Regimes and Resultant Forest Structure in the Native Año Nuevo Monterey Pine (Pinus Radiata) Forest, California
Journal article by Scott L. Stephens, Douglas D. Piirto, Domenico F. Caramagno; The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 152, 2004
Subjects: California, Fires, Forests, Soils, Trees
...prehistoric period, the Central California Ohlone Indians lived in the...1843 the Mexican Governor of California granted this area to Ramon...intensified. Currently the ranch is California Polytechnic State Universitys...the Ben Lomond-Catelli-Sur complex (Bowman and Estrada...
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magazine articles on: Baja California Sur  - 19 results

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Bizarre Blooms of Baja: With a Variety of Habitats and Weather Conditions, This Pristine Peninsula Harbors a Range of Unique Plants
Magazine article by Jeffrey P. Cohn; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 58, March 2006
Subjects: Baja California (Peninsula)--Environmental aspects, Baja California (Peninsula)--Natural resources, Habitat (Ecology)--Analysis, Habitats--Analysis
...biologically interesting areas of Baja are the deserts that dominate...the state capital of Baja California Sur. Often referred to separately...and into southeastern California. Bajas diverse weather...the northern portions of Baja get mostly winter rains...
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Saving Sharks in Baja California?
Magazine article by C.J. Bahnsen; E, Vol. 17, September 2006
Subjects: Environmental associations--Services, Sharks--Protection and preservation, Sharks--Surveys
Saving Sharks in Baja California? by C.J. Bahnsen In El Portugues, a small fishing camp in Mexicos Baja California Sur, moustachioed fishermen with tobacco-colored skin glide to...
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Saving the Song of SEA GIANTS
Magazine article by Chris Hardman; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 53, March 2001
Subjects: Baja California, Mexico--Plants and animals, Endangered species--Appreciation, Gray whale--Appreciation, Poetry--Environmental aspects
...large public holdings of Mitsubishi stock. In California there is a California state employee retirement system that held about...scientists from the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography...
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San Diego
Magazine article; California History, Vol. 82, Winter 2004
...permanent settlement of upper California--including Franciscan missions...understanding made reference to Baja California, which the Spanish visited numerous...on Magdalena Bay in present Baja California Sur, was the second Dominican mission...
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Painting California
Magazine article by Bonnie Gangelhoff; Southwest Art, Vol. 31, May 2002
Subjects: Auster, Ken, Budicin, John, Comer, John, Composition, Hartman, Glenna, Painting, Personal profiles, Visual artists
...month camping trip to Baja she started thinking...and seasonal moods of California. "Im trying to convey...particularly the Big Sur, that feed his soul...he travels to the Big Sur at least twice a month...has lived in Northern California for more than four decades...
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newspaper articles on: Baja California Sur  - 23 results

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Baja Venta De Viviendas Nuevas Hallan la Galaxia M[beta]s Antigua
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 30, 2011
Baja Venta De Viviendas Nuevas...en la frontera Nevada-California, donde ejecutivos deseosos...atrayendo a latinos en el sur de California y Las Vegas. Los hispanos...mayora en algunas partes del sur de California, que es el mayor mercado...
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La Economia De EEUU En Baja; Se Espera Recesion Grave El Legado De la Prensa Hispana En EEUU Tiene 200 Anos De Historia Mandatarios Debaten Crisis Economica
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 2, 2008
La Economia De EEUU En Baja; Se Espera Recesion Grave El Legado...Comunicaciones Annenberg de la Universidad del Sur de California (Los Angeles), que en 1977 senalo...abarque un Banco de Desarrollo para el Sur, analogo al Banco Mundial, capitalizado...
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Thousands Flee Hurricane
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 2, 2009
Subjects: Hurricanes--Mexico, Hurricanes--United States, News agencies, The Associated Press
...raked the coast late Tuesday. Baja California prepared shelters to hold up to...fringe the harsh desert of the long Baja peninsula. Ashley Legeyt, 62...emergency for Los Cabos and the Baja California Sur state capital of La Paz and schools...
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Mexican Voters Mostly Stick with Status Quo; Many Ignored 3 Closely Watched Governor's Races
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 6, 2004
Subjects: Fox, Vicente
...Besides Aguascalientes, the party still governs Baja California Norte, Guanajuato, Jalisco (Guadalajara), Queretaro...in 1997. After Zacatecas, it went on to win in Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Tlaxcala and Michoacan. A PAN-PRD...
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Split Congress Shifts Left in Mexican Voting; Conservatives Short of Majority
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 4, 2006
Subjects: Political parties--Mexico, Political parties--Political aspects
...Luis Potosi. Besides Morelos, it also controls Baja California Norte and Yucatan. But it has lost two states back...the governorships of mostly impoverished states: Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Guerrero, Michoacan and Zacatecas...
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encyclopedia articles on: Baja California Sur  - 5 results

 
 
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Baja California Sur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR Span.: ba ha kalefor nya soor, state...428 sq km), NW Mexico, on the S Baja California peninsula. La Paz is the...destination at the southern end of the state. Baja California Sur was made a state in 1974...
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Baja California , Peninsula, Mexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...28 N into the state of Baja California in the north, and the state of Baja California Sur in the south. Except for two...fishing are favorite sports. Baja California Sur is not economically prosperous...
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Mexico , Country, North America
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...830 m), and tierra fria (above c.6,000 ft/1,830 m). Mexicos 31 states are Aguascalientes , Baja California , Baja California Sur , Campeche , Chiapas , Chihuahua , Coahuila , Colima , Durango , Guanajuato , Guerrero , Hidalgo , Jalisco...
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Los Cabos
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the towns of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, encompassing much of the S tip of the Baja California peninsula. The communities have developed rapidly...
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La Paz , City, Mexico
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1990 pop. 137,641), capital and largest city of Baja California Sur state, W Mexico. A tourist spot and transportation hub for the southern Baja peninsula, La Paz was first settled in 1811. The city...


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