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Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur is the southern half of the peninsula. The state is known for its remote beaches, sport fishing, and breeding waters for whales and other marine mammals.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include La Paz and Cabo San Lucas.

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is a city in Baja California Sur, . Often overlooked by travelers drawn to the more flashy nearby Los Cabos resorts, has a wonderful waterfront and world class beaches.

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is a city at the southern tip of Baja California Sur, . Cabo is a varied destination that captures the essence of Baja Peninsula in its many resorts, hotels, golf courses, dining and amazing outdoor activities.

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is a protected natural area in the northern part of Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest protected biospheres in the world covering an area of more than 96,000 square miles.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as San José del Cabo and Loreto.

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San Jose del Cabo is a city of 136,000 people in Los Cabos. Like its sister city, , it is a major tourist destination, especially for Americans and Canadians during the high season from October to May.

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is a small, tranquil town in Baja California Sur, catering mostly to North American travelers, who arrive on daily flights from California to International Airport.

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Santa Rosalía is a city of about 14,000 people on the Gulf of California coast of the Peninsula. It's not much of a tourist town though it has old school charm and is known for its French influenced architecture.

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Not to be confused with , a town in Guatemala. is a Pacific coast city in Baja California Sur, about an hour north of .

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is a city of 14,000 people in Baja California Sur, on the edge of the Vizcaino Desert just south of the state border about halfway down the peninsula.

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is a city of 3,800 people in . Visitors come for the area's deep sea fishing, kayaking, cave tours, and bird watching. Fishing, with or without charters, to catch a big game fish is a popular attraction.

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is a town of 670 people in . It has a beautiful old mission, and is the gateway to Lagoon, the winter time sanctuary of the Pacific gray whale.

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is a small fishing village on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur. It is a sheltered harbor on Magdalena Bay, one of the best places in Mexico for whale watching.

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National Park is on the eastern shore of Baja California Sur in 's Sea of Cortez. It is one of the most species-rich environments on Earth and is especially valued as a habitat for marine mammals.

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is a village of 1,200 people in Baja California Sur. Here in you will still find the old Baja: campgrounds, little fishing casitas with thatched roofs, cozy restaurants, small stores, endless white sandy beaches and fantastic sport fishing.

Baja California Sur

  • Type: State with 798,000 residents
  • Description: state of Mexico
  • Also known as: “BCS”, “Distrito Sur Baja California”, “Estado de Baja California Sur”, “Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur”, “MX-BCS”, “MX03”, “South Lower California”, “South Territory of Baja California”, “Territorio Sur Baja California”, and “Tlani California Huitztlāmpa”
  • Neighbors:
  • Categories: state of Mexico and locality
  • Location: , ,
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Latitude of center
25.5818° or 25° 34′ 55″ north
Longitude of center
-111.5706° or 111° 34′ 14″ west
Population
798,000
Elevation
239 metres (784 feet)
Abbreviation
“BCS”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2160053456
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
4017698
Wiki­data ID
Q46508
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Baja California Sur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Baja California Sur”
  • Arabic: “باخا كالفورنيا سور”
  • Arabic: “ولاية باجا كاليفورنيا سور”
  • Arabic: “ولاية باها كاليفورنيا سور”
  • Arabic: “ولايه باجا كاليفورنيا سور”
  • Aragonese: “Baixa California Sud”
  • Aragonese: “Baixa California Sur”
  • Aragonese: “Baja California del Sur”
  • Aragonese: “Baja California Sur”
  • Aragonese: “Baxa California Sur”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային Բախա Կալիֆոռնիա”
  • Armenian: “Հարավային Ստորին Կալիֆոռնիա”
  • Asturian: “Baxa California Sur”
  • Aymara: “Baja California Sur Istadu”
  • Balinese: “Baja California Sur”
  • Basque: “Baja California Sur”
  • Basque: “Hego Kalifornia Beherea”
  • Belarusian: “Паўднёвая Ніжняя Каліфорнія”
  • Belarusian: “Штат Паўднёвая Ніжняя Каліфорнія”
  • Bengali: “বাহা কালিফোর্নিয়া সুর”
  • Bosnian: “Južna Donja Kalifornija”
  • Breton: “Baja California Sur”
  • Breton: “Kalifornia-Izel ar C’hreisteiz”
  • Bulgarian: “Баха Калифорния Сур”
  • Bulgarian: “Южна Долна Калифорния”
  • Catalan: “Baixa Califòrnia Sud”
  • Catalan: “Baja California Sur”
  • Catalan: “Estat de Baixa Califòrnia Sud”
  • Cebuano: “Estado de Baja California Sur”
  • Chechen: “Къилба Лаха Калифорни”
  • Chinese: “Baja California Sur Chiu”
  • Chinese: “南下加利福尼亚州”
  • Chinese: “南下加利福尼亞”
  • Chinese: “南下加利福尼亞州”
  • Cornish: “Baja California Sur”
  • Corsican: “Bassa California di u Sudu”
  • Croatian: “Baja California Sur”
  • Czech: “Baja California Sur”
  • Czech: “Jižní Dolní Kalifornie”
  • Danish: “Baja California Sur”
  • Dutch: “Baja California Sur”
  • Dutch: “Zuid-Neder-Californie”
  • Dutch: “Zuid-Neder-Californië”
  • Esperanto: “Baja California Sur”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Baja California”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Basa Kalifornio”
  • Esperanto: “Suda Malsupra Kalifornio”
  • Estonian: “Baja California Sur”
  • Estonian: “Baja California Suri osariik”
  • Finnish: “Baja California Sur”
  • French: “Baja California Sur”
  • French: “Basse Californie du Sud”
  • French: “Basse-Californie du Sud”
  • French: “Basse-Californie-du-Sud”
  • French: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur”
  • French: “MX-BCS”
  • Galician: “Baixa California Sur”
  • Galician: “Baja California Sur”
  • Georgian: “ქვედა კალიფორნია”
  • Georgian: “ქვემო კალიფორნია”
  • German: “Baja California Sur”
  • German: “MX-BCS”
  • German: “Süd-Niederkalifornien”
  • Greek: “Μπάχα Καλιφόρνια ντελ Σουρ”
  • Greek: “Μπάχα Καλιφόρνια Σουρ”
  • Gujarati: “બાજા કેલિફોર્નિયા સુર”
  • Hausa: “Yanayin yanayi na Baja California Sur”
  • Hebrew: “באחה קליפורניה הדרומית”
  • Hebrew: “באחה קליפורניה סור”
  • Hindi: “बाहा कैलिफोर्निया सुर”
  • Hungarian: “Dél-Alsó-Kalifornia”
  • Hungarian: “Déli-Alsó-Kalifornia”
  • Icelandic: “Baja California Sur”
  • Ido: “Basa Kalifornia Sudo”
  • Iloko: “Baja California Sur”
  • Indonesian: “Baja California Sur”
  • Interlingua: “Baja California Sur”
  • Irish: “Baja California Sur”
  • Italian: “Baja California Sur”
  • Italian: “Bassa California del Sud”
  • Japanese: “バハ・カリフォルニア・スール州”
  • Japanese: “バハ・カリフォルニア・スル”
  • Japanese: “バハ・カリフォルニア・スル州”
  • Japanese: “バハカリフォルニアスル州”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಜಾ ಕ್ಯಾಲಿಫೋರ್ನಿಯಾ ಸುರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Төменгі оңтүстік Калифорния”
  • Korean: “바하 칼리포르니아 수르 주”
  • Korean: “바하칼리포르니아수르”
  • Korean: “바하칼리포르니아수르주”
  • Ladino: “Basha Kalifornia Sud”
  • Latin: “Basia California Meridionalis”
  • Latin: “California Inferior Meridionalis”
  • Latvian: “Dienvidu Lejaskalifornija”
  • Lithuanian: “Pietų Žemutinė Kalifornija”
  • Lithuanian: “Žemutinė Pietų Kalifornija”
  • Macedonian: “Јужна Долна Калифорнија”
  • Malay: “Baja California Sur”
  • Marathi: “बाशा कालिफॉर्निया सुर”
  • Marathi: “बाशा कालिफोर्निया सुर”
  • Marathi: “बाहा कालिफोर्निया सुर”
  • Marathi: “बाहा कॅलिफोर्निया सुर”
  • Mazanderani: “باخا کالیفرنیا سور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baja California Sur Chiu”
  • Navajo: “Shádiʼááhjí Ayaaí Ahééháshį́į́h Hahoodzo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baja California Sur (Bundesstoot)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Baja California Sur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baja California Sur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baja California Sur”
  • Norwegian: “Baja California Sur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bassa Califòrnia del Sud”
  • Ossetian: “Хуссар Дæллаг Калифорни”
  • Pampanga: “Baja California Sur”
  • Persian: “باحا کالیفرنیا سور”
  • Persian: “باخا کالیفرنیا سور”
  • Persian: “باها کالیفرنیا سور”
  • Piemontese: “Bassa Califòrnia dël Sud”
  • Polish: “Baja California Sur”
  • Polish: “Kalifornia Dolna Południowa”
  • Portuguese: “Baixa Califórnia do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Baixa Califórnia Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Baja California Sur”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Baixa Califórnia do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Baixa Califórnia Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Estado da Baja California Sur”
  • Quechua: “Baja California Sur suyu”
  • Romanian: “Baja California Sur”
  • Romansh: “Baja California Sid”
  • Romansh: “Baja California Sur”
  • Russian: “Нижняя Калифорния Южная”
  • Russian: “Южная Нижняя Калифорния”
  • Sardinian: “Califòrnia Bassa de su Sud”
  • Scots: “Baja California Sur”
  • Scots: “Sooth Lawer Californie”
  • Serbian: “Estado de Baja California Sur”
  • Serbian: “Јужна Доња Калифорнија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baja California Sur”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Južna Donja Kalifornija”
  • Sicilian: “Bassa California dû Sud”
  • Sinhala: “බජා කැලිෆෝනියා සර්”
  • Sinhala: “බාජා කැලිෆෝනියා සුර් ප්‍රාන්තය, මෙක්සිකෝව”
  • Slovak: “Baja California Sur”
  • Slovenian: “Baja California Sur”
  • Slovenian: “Estado de Baja California Sur”
  • Slovenian: “Južna Spodnja Kalifornija”
  • Spanish: “B C S”
  • Spanish: “B.C.S.”
  • Spanish: “Baja California Sur”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Baja California Sur”
  • Swahili: “Baja California Sur”
  • Swedish: “Baja California Sur”
  • Tagalog: “Baja California Sur”
  • Tajik: “Калифорнияи Поёнии Ҷанубӣ”
  • Tamil: “தெற்கு பாகா கலிபோர்னியா”
  • Tamil: “பாஜா கலிபோர்னியா சூர்”
  • Tatar: “Баха-Калифорния-Сур”
  • Tatar: “Көньяк Түбән Калифорния”
  • Telugu: “బాజా కాలిఫోర్నియా సుర్”
  • Thai: “Baja California Sur”
  • Thai: “บาฮากาลิฟอร์เนียซูร์”
  • Thai: “รัฐบาฮากาลิฟอร์เนียซูร์”
  • Tumbuka: “Baja California Sur,Mexico”
  • Tumbuka: “Baja California Sur”
  • Turkish: “Baja California Sur”
  • Turkish: “Güney Aşağı Kaliforniya”
  • Ukrainian: “Баха-Каліфорнія-Сур”
  • Ukrainian: “Баха-Каліфорнія-Сюр, Південна Нижня Каліфорнія”
  • Ukrainian: “Південна Нижня Каліфорнія”
  • Urdu: “باجا کیلیفورنیا سر”
  • Urdu: “باخا کیلیفورنیا سر”
  • Uzbek: “Quyi janubiy Kaliforniya”
  • Venetian: “Basa Całifòrnia Sud”
  • Vietnamese: “Baja California Nam”
  • Vietnamese: “Baja California Sur”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạ California Nam”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Baja California”
  • Vietnamese: “Nam Hạ California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baja California Sur”
  • Welsh: “Baja California Sur”
  • Western Panjabi: “باجا کیلیفورنیا سر”
  • Wu Chinese: “南下加利福尼亚州”
  • Yue Chinese: “南下加利福尼亞州”
  • “Baja California Sur”
  • “Tsintlan Echkapan California”

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