Strategic Location

The State of Baja California is located in the Northwest part of Mexico, in the North of the Peninsula of Baja California. It has a common border with the United States of America with a longitude of 253 kilometers, bordering with the State of California and Arizona in the northern country. It is surrounded by the Sea of Cortés on the East, and to the West by the Pacific Ocean, adding up to a total of 1,493 km of coastline.

Because of its territorial extension, Baja California occupies the twelfth place and represents 3.6 percent of the country, which has a total surface of 1'959, 248 Kms2.  Its altitude above sea level goes from 3mssl in the Valley of Mexicali to 3l00 in the heights of the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir. The temperature is most variable because of the diverse features on the different regions that form the State.

The diversity of its regions gives singular characteristics to the State. It has a large dessert area as well as important forest areas that comprehend the National Forest Reserves of the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir and the l857 Constitution National Park, this last one being inhabited by a wide variety of fauna species where hunting is allowed.

Of great natural beauty, Baja California counts with impressive sierras, large dessert extensions, fertile valleys and very extensive coastlines of unique and world-renowned fishing richness.  As in no other place, desert and coastline meet, resulting in some of the most beautiful and hallucinating land-seascapes on earth.  In its valleys flourishes a prosperous commercial and agricultural industry, which is a supplying source for national and international markets.

Its natural beauties are indeed what attract thousands of tourists who travel from all over the globe to enjoy the spectacular landscapes and resources which nature has given to the State.