Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur is the southern half of the Baja California peninsula. The state is known for its remote beaches, sport fishing, and breeding waters for whales and other marine mammals.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
La Paz
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La Paz is a city in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Often overlooked by travelers drawn to the more flashy nearby Los Cabos resorts, La Paz has a wonderful waterfront and world class beaches.
Cabo San Lucas
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Cabo San Lucas is a city at the southern tip of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve
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El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve is a protected natural area in the northern part of Baja California Sur.
Destinations
San José del Cabo
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San Jose del Cabo is a city of 136,000 people in Los Cabos.
Loreto
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Loreto is a resort town in Baja California Sur, catering mostly to American travelers, who arrive on daily flights from California to Loreto International Airport.
Santa Rosalia
Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Santa Rosalía is a city of about 14,000 people on the Gulf of California coast of the Baja California Peninsula.
Todos Santos
Todos Santos is a city in Baja California Sur north of Cabo San Lucas on the Pacific side.Guerrero Negro
Photo: Tomascastelazo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Guerrero Negro 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.
Bahia de Loreto
Photo: Tkestas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bahia de Loreto National Park is on the eastern shore of Baja California Sur in Mexico's Sea of Cortez.
San Carlos
San Carlos is a small fishing village on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur.Los Barriles
Photo: John Markos O'Neill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Los Barriles is a village of 1,200 people in Baja California Sur.
Baja California Sur
- Type: State with 798,000 residents
- Description: state of Mexico
- Neighbors: Baja California
- Categories: state of Mexico and locality
- Location: Baja California, Mexico, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
25.5818° or 25° 34' 55" northLongitude of centre
-111.5706° or 111° 34' 14" westPopulation
798,000Elevation
239 metres (784 feet)Abbreviation
BCSOpenStreetMap ID
node 2160053456OpenStreetMap Feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
4017698Wikidata ID
Q46508Baja California Sur Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Baja California Sur
- Arabic: 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 Sur
- Aragonese: Baja California del Sur
- Aragonese: Baxa California Sur
- Armenian: Հարավային Բախա Կալիֆոռնիա
- Armenian: Հարավային Ստորին Կալիֆոռնիա
- Aymara: Baja California Sur Istadu
- 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
- 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
- English: BCS
- English: Estado de Baja California Sur
- English: Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur
- English: MX-BCS
- English: MX03
- English: South Lower California
- English: South Territory of Baja California
- 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 - Baja California Sur
- 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 Σουρ
- Greek: Μπάχα Καλιφόρνια ντελ Σουρ
- Gujarati: બાજા કેલિફોર્નિયા સુર
- 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・スール州
- Kannada: ಬಾಜಾ ಕ್ಯಾಲಿಫೋರ್ನಿಯಾ ಸುರ್
- Kazakh: Төменгі оңтүстік Калифорния
- Korean: 바하칼리포르니아수르
- Korean: 바하칼리포르니아수르 주
- Korean: 바하 칼리포르니아 수르 주
- Korean: 바하칼리포르니아수르주
- Ladino: Basha Kalifornia Sud
- Lao: Baja California Sur
- 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: Baja California Sur
- Norwegian Bokmål: Baja California Sur
- Norwegian Bokmål: Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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 Sul
- Portuguese: Baixa Califórnia do Sul
- Portuguese: Baja California Sur
- Portuguese: Estado da Baixa Califórnia Sul
- Portuguese: Estado da Baixa Califórnia do 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
- Scots: Baja California Sur
- Serbian: Estado de Baja California Sur
- Serbian: Јужна Доња Калифорнија
- Serbo-Croatian: Baja California Sur
- Serbo-Croatian: Južna Donja Kalifornija
- Sinhala: බජා කැලිෆෝනියා සර්
- Slovak: Baja California Sur
- 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
- Telugu: బాజా కాలిఫోర్నియా సుర్
- Thai: Baja California Sur
- Thai: บาฮากาลิฟอร์เนียซูร์
- Thai: รัฐบาฮากาลิฟอร์เนียซูร์
- Tumbuka: Baja California Sur,Mexico
- 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
- Distrito Sur Baja California
- Territorio Sur Baja California
- Tlani California Huitztlampa
- Tlani California Huitztlāmpa
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Baja California Sur. Photo: Farwestern, CC BY 3.0.