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Baja California: Encyclopedia - Baja California

Baja California is the northernmost state of Mexico. It is sometimes incorrectly referred to as Baja California Norte to distinguish it from the Baja California peninsula, of which it forms the northern half. The state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Sonora and the Sea of Cortez or Gulf of California, and on the south by Baja California Sur. Its northern limit is the U.S.-Mexico border, adjacent to the U.S. state of California. The state has a population of 2,750,000 (2003 estimate), m ...

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Baja California: Encyclopedia - Baja California Peninsula Baja California or Lower California is a peninsula in the west of Mexico. It extends some 1250 km from Tijuana in the north to Cabo San Lucas in the south, separating the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California (or "Sea of Cortés"). Baja California Peninsula - The Island of California. In the minds of European explorers, California existed as an idea before it was ever discovered. The earliest known mention of the idea of California was in the 1510 romance novel Las Sergas de Esplan ...

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Baja California: Encyclopedia - Baja California Sur

Baja California Sur is one of the 31 States of Mexico, occupying the part of the Baja California Peninsula south of the 28th parallel. It is bordered to the north by the state of Baja California, to the west by the Pacific Ocean, and to the east by the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortez. The state is known for its natural riches, and for its tourism. In the north is located the Vizcaíno Desert, as well as the small coastal lakes of San Ignacio and Ojo de Liebre, which are protected by the federal government. T ...

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Baja California Sur - History

Baja California: Encyclopedia - Border blaster

A border blaster, in contrast to an international broadcast station, was a licensed commercial radio station that transmitted at very high power to the United States of America from various points along the Mexican border with that country. There were many such stations licensed by Mexico's Ministry of Communications and Transport (SCT) using transmitters with an output far in excess of licensed commercial stations located within the USA. In 1973 the border blaster XERB became world famous when George Lucas featured the station as the source for the musical sound ...

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Baja California: Encyclopedia - Bishop Pine

The Bishop Pine (Pinus muricata) is a pine with a very restricted range: mostly California, USA, including some offshore islands, and a few locations in Baja California, Mexico, and always on or near the coast, from Trinidad Head in Humboldt County, California south to San Vicente in Baja California. The mature trees grow to a height of 15-25 m, rarely up to 34 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 1.2 m. They are often smaller, stunted and twisted in coastal exposure. It ...

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Bishop Pine - Cultivation and uses

Baja California: Encyclopedia - Night lizard

See text. Night lizards (family name Xantusiidae) are a group of very small, viviparous (live-bearing) lizards, averaging from less than 4 cm to over 12 cm long. It has only three genera, with approximately 23 living species. The genera are divided by geographic range: Xantusia in southwestern North America and Baja California, Cricosaura in Cuba, and Lepidophyma, the mo ...

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Night lizard - Classification

Baja California: Encyclopedia - Yellow Pansy

The Yellow Pansy (Viola pedunculata) is a common and attractive wildflower of coastal regions of California and Baja California. It is also known as the California Golden Violet, or as the Johnny Jump Up, though the latter name is more usually associated with the introduced Heartsease, Viola tricolor. The Yellow Pansy grows on open, grassy slopes, chaparral, and in oak woodlands, from sea level to around 1000 metres. It is a perennial, growing from a spongy rhizome. The plant is often low-growing, but can r ...

Baja California: Encyclopedia - California Current

The California Current is a Pacific Ocean current that moves south along the western coast of North America, begining off southern British Columbia, and ending off southern Baja California. It is part of the North Pacific Gyre, a large swriling current that occupies the northern basin of the Pacific. The movement of northern waters moving south makes the coastal waters colder than coastal areas of comparable latitude on the east coast of the United States, a situation strengthened by the underwater topography of the continental shelf,

Baja California: Encyclopedia - American legless lizard

A. pulchra pulchra A. pulchra nigra A. geronimensis The family Anniellidae of American legless lizards contains two species in a single genus Anniella: A. pulchra, the California legless lizard, with two subspecies A. p. pulchra and A. p. nigra, and the rare A. geronimensis, the Baja California legless lizard. Other related archives

Baja California: Encyclopedia - Western Gull

The Western Gull, Larus occidentalis, is a large white-headed gull that lives on the western coast of North America. It was previously considered conspecific with the Yellow-footed Gull (Larus livens) of the Gulf of California. The Western Gull ranges from Washington and British Columbia to Baja California, and because of its convenient colonies on the coast of California it is well studied. Despite being a well-known bird species on the West Coast of the US, it is of some slight conservation concern given its restricted ...

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Baja California: Encyclopedia - Washingtonia

Washingtonia is a genus of palms, native to the southwestern United States (in southern California, southwest Arizona) and northwest Mexico (in northern Baja California and Sonora). They are fan palms (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves with a bare petiole terminating in a rounded fan of numerous leaflets. The flowers are in a dense inflorescence, with the fruits maturing into a small blackish-brown drupe 6-10 mm diameter with a thin layer of sweet flesh over the single seed. There are two species:

Baja California: Encyclopedia - Acacia greggii

Acacia greggii is a species of Acacia native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, from the extreme south of Utah (where, at 37°10' N it is the northernmost naturally-occurring Acacia species anywhere in the world) south through southern Nevada, southeast California, Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas to Baja California, Sinaloa and Nuevo León in Mexico. Common names include Catclaw Acacia, Gregg's Catclaw, Devil's Claw, Paradise Flower, Wait-a-minute tre ...

Baja California: Encyclopedia - Coulter Pine

The Coulter Pine or Big-cone Pine (Pinus coulteri) is a native of the coastal mountains of southern California (United States) and northern Baja California (Mexico). This erect, medium-sized pine prefers south-facing slopes between 200-2300 m elevation, and tolerates dry rocky soil. The tree most often appears in mixed forests. The species is named after Thomas Coulter, an Irish botanist and physician. The size ranges from 10-24 m tall, and a trunk diameter up to 1 m. The trunk is vertical and branches horizontal ...

Baja California: Encyclopedia - Bighorn Sheep

Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) is a species of sheep in North America with two endangered subspecies: Desert Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) California Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis californiana). Bighorn Sheep - Origin. Wild sheep crossed the Bering land bridge from Siberia during the Pleistocene and, subsequently, spread through western North America as far south as Baja California and northern mainland Mexico (Cowan 1940). Divergence from their ...

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Baja California: Encyclopedia - White sage

White sage (Salvia apiana), also known as Sacred sage, is an evergreen perennial shrub of the genus Salvia, the sages. It is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, being found mainly in the coastal sage scrub habitat of Southern California and Baja California, on the western edges of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. Stems and leaves are usually white from the presence of fine hairs. The leaves start out crinkly grey-green and become smooth and white. These plants typically reach 6 ...

Baja California: Encyclopedia - XETRA-FM

XETRA-FM (or 91X) (sometimes identified as XTRA-FM) is an english language, mexican-owned (border blaster) alternative rock music station broadcasting from Tijuana, Baja California on 91.1 MHz. The studios are located in the Kearny Mesa area of San Diego. The station is leased by Finest City Broadcasting, Inc. located in San Diego. The station was founded in 1983, and was the first Alternative Rock radio station in radio history. In 1996 91X was aquired by Jacor Communications and in hand later acquired by Clear C ...

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XETRA-FM - Former and current Personalities

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Baja California: Encyclopedia - United States–Mexico border

The international border between Mexico and the United States runs from San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, in the west to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east. It traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts. From the border crossing at El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to the east, it follows the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) to the Gulf of Mexico; from the same binational conurbation westward to the Pacific Ocean, it crosses vast tracts of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts, the Colorado Riv ...

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Baja California: Encyclopedia - Clark's Nutcracker

The Clark's Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana), is a large passerine bird, in the family Corvidae. It is slightly smaller than its Eurasian relative Spotted Nutcracker (N. caryocatactes). It is ashy-grey all over except for the black-and-white wings and central tail feathers (the outer ones are white). The bill, legs and feet are also black. It occurs in western North America from British Columbia and western Alberta in the north to Baja California and western New Mexico in the south. There is also a small isolated ...

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Baja California: Encyclopedia - Boojum tree

The Boojum or Cirio (Fouquieria columnaris, syn. Idria columnaris) is a bizarre-looking tree in the family Fouquieriaceae, whose other members include the Ocotillos. It is nearly endemic to the Baja California peninsula, with only a small population in the Sierra Bacha of Sonora. Its name is derived from Lewis Carroll's poem "The Hunting of the Snark". The trunk is up to 24 cm thick, with branches sticking out at right angles, all covered with small leaves 1.5-4 cm long. They can grow to a height of 20 m. The flowers bloom in summer and autumn; they occur in short ...

Baja California: Encyclopedia - Brush Rabbit

The Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani), or Western Brush Rabbit, is a species of cottontail rabbit found in western coastal regions of North America, from the Columbia River in Oregon to the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. Its range extends as far east as the eastern sides of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges. Brush Rabbit - Habitat. Brush rabbits inhabit dense, brushy cover, most commonly in chaparral vegetation. They also occur in oak and conifer habitats and they ...