SAN QUINTIN B.C.

San Quintín is a coastal town on the west coast of the Mexican state of Baja California, in the municipio of Ensenada; the town is also in the middle of an important agricultural area, especially for growing strawberries and tomatoes. The largest nearby locality is Lázaro Cardenas. 

HISTORY

In the 1880's some land in San Quintin were British-owned company Colonization Company acquired much of the area in order to create an empire of wheat. The progressed which was built a mill and a wharf for transportation also wheat, which required the construction of a railway to join a road leading south Pacific. But a drought devastated the empire and by 1900 the colonists had abandoned San Quintin. San Quintin now has a vast and progressive agriculture.

ATTRACTIONS IN SAN QUINTIN... 

Find plants like pine, oak, juniper and thousands species of flora and desert chaparral and sage, verbena, yucca and palm. also find piñon, Jeffrey pine, white fir, incense cedar, sugar pine and at least three species not found elsewhere in Baja California as aspen, lodgepole pine, cypress of San Pedro Martir. Fauna in no particular order is the donkey deer, mountain lion, wild cat, coyotes, and so rare Borregón. Pets and cattle and sheep.

Santo Domingo de La Frontera Mission

The site of Santo Domingo de la Frontera was in 1771, and was explored during 1775 by the Dominicans Manuel Garcia and Miguel Hidalgo, who founded the mission on 30 August of that year. Originally established 30 km from the Bay of San Quintin. Between 1775 and 1797, the religious Manuel García, Miguel Hidalgo, José Avian Miguel Abad and Jaime Covina, served as resident minister.

Sierra San Pedro Mártir National Park and Astronomical Observatory.

The National Park comprises wooded lot located within the mountainous Sierra de San Pedro Martir. This is one of the few tracts of mountain forest is located in the Baja California Peninsula. It has a variety of conifer species and serves as an important refuge for wildlife on the peninsula whose species, some endemic can see bighorn sheep.

La Lobera Sea Lion Sanctuary close San Quintín Baja California. 

Approximately 30 miles south of San Quintin is a unique natural attraction known as La Lobera which is a sea lions sanctuary. This site has faced rock over millions of years of strong tides and high waves off the coast of Baja California into large cavities between the rock where the sea penetrates. This phenomenon has given rise to a crater, located some 150 meters inland, it has served as a refuge for seals and sea lions. The crater is about 30 meters in diameter at the top and 60 meters on the inside, with about 15 meters deep.

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