San Jose del Cabo
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Coordinates: 23 ° 4 ′ N , 109 ° 42 ′ W San José del Cabo on the map of Baja California Sur
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| Country | Mexico | |
| State | Baja California Sur | |
| Municipio | Los Cabos | |
| City foundation | 1730 | |
| Residents | 69,788 (2010) | |
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| Post Code | 23400 | |
| prefix | 624 | |
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San José del Cabo is a town on the Sea of Cortes and the seat of the southernmost municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur , Los Cabos .
location
The city center is located on a small hill about a kilometer and a half from the Sea of Cortes and is supplied with fresh breezes from the sea. San José is an agricultural center surrounded by farmland. In the north and east of the city there are extensive cultivated areas on which mangoes , avocados , bananas and citrus plants grow.
history
According to current knowledge, before the colonization of America, only Pericú lived in the local region, which they called Añuiti , although the meaning of this word can no longer be understood today. The name was adopted when in 1730 the Jesuit Father Nicolás Tamaral founded the Misión Estero de las Palmas de San José del Cabo Añuiti in what is now the city . The father chose the name San José in honor of José de la Fuente Peña y Castrejón, who promoted the settlement of the peninsula.
In 1756 the Manila galleon Santísima Trinidad, coming from the Philippines , called at the young settlement of San José after a five-month sea voyage with over two hundred sick on board. 74 of the crew (435 people - crew and passengers) had died en route, mostly from diarrhea and lack of water, including the former governor of the Philippines, Ovando and his son; the ship was almost impossible to maneuver due to a lack of personnel. Another ten people died on land in San José before the journey to Acapulco .
In 1822 the city was sacked by the British Admiral Thomas Cochrane .
During the Mexican-American War , the city was captured by US troops in 1846.
In 1940 the Iglesia San José was built on the site of the former Misión San José del Cabo on the west side of the central Plaza Mijares .
In the 1990s, some outskirts of the city were flooded in a heavy rain storm. The masses of water tore away houses and washed away some beaches.
tourism
Together with its sister city Cabo San Lucas , located around 30 km southwest, San José del Cabo is an important tourist center in the extreme south of the Baja California peninsula .
While San Lucas is more attractive to young party-goers, older vacationers feel more comfortable in the quieter and more pristine San José, whose narrow and hilly streets run between closely spaced houses in the Spanish colonial style.
Individual evidence
- ^ Automobile Club of Southern California: Baja California Sur (1973)
- ↑ Joe Cummings: Cabo - La Paz to Cabo San Lucas (Moon Handbooks, Fourth Edition), Emeryville, CA, USA (2003), p. 169 / ISBN 1-56691-409-4
- ↑ Joe Cummings: Cabo - La Paz to Cabo San Lucas (Moon Handbooks, Fourth Edition), Emeryville, CA, USA (2003), p. 171
- ↑ Enciclopedia de los Municipios y Delegaciones de México: Los Cabos (Spanish)
- ↑ It was the third longest voyage a galleon had ever made. José María Silos Rodríguez: El viaje de 1755 del galeón Santisima Trinidad . In: Revista de Historia Naval 88 (2005), pp. 57-82
- ↑ Cochrane Sentence Examples (accessed September 21, 2014)
- ↑ Historia de los Cabos (Spanish; accessed on September 21, 2014)
- ↑ Joe Cummings: Cabo - La Paz to Cabo San Lucas (Moon Handbooks, Fourth Edition), Emeryville, CA, USA (2003), p. 173
- ↑ Jonathan Waterman: Kayak Adventure Baja California , SIERRA at Frederking & Thaler Verlag (Munich, 2000), p. 201 / ISBN 3-89405-076-4
- ↑ Joe Cummings: Cabo - La Paz to Cabo San Lucas (Moon Handbooks, Fourth Edition), Emeryville, CA, USA (2003), p. 169
- ↑ Jonathan Waterman: Kayak Adventure Baja California , SIERRA at Frederking & Thaler Verlag (Munich, 2000), p. 195
