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Cabo Pulmo National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Cabo Pulmo) is a national marine park on the east coast of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, spanning the distance between Pulmo Point and Los Frailes Cape, approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Cabo San Lucas in the Gulf of California.
Cabo Pulmo National Park: 1995: 71: Baja California Sur: Cañón del Río Blanco National Park: 1938: 556: Veracruz: Cañón del Sumidero National Park: 1980: 217: Chiapas: Cerro de Garnica National Park: 1936: 9: Michoacán: Cerro de la Estrella National Park: 1938: 11: Distrito Federal (Ciudad de México) Cerro de Las Campanas National Park ...
This list of Ramsar sites in Mexico includes wetlands that are considered to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention.Mexico currently has 138 sites designated as "Wetlands of International Importance" with a surface area of 88,264.29 km 2 (34,079.03 sq mi).
After the designation, people from Cabo Pulmo town self-organized and acted collectively to pass a resolution that prohibits all commercial extractive activities throughout the park. Fish biomass inside the park has increased significantly in all trophic levels at annual rates varying between 12 and 25% and total biomass has increased by 3.49 t ...
Baja California Sur has the largest protected surface area in Mexico, 38.3% of the state in 10 official protected areas: Bahía de Loreto National Park (510,472.2 acres), Cabo Pulmo National Park (17'570 acres), Espíritu Santo Archipelago National Park (120,228.70 acres), El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve (6,293,255.76 acres), Ojo de Liebre ...
The Mexican government established an 11-mile-long marine reserve off Cabo Pulmo, a national park, to protect it from commercial fishing. [9] Ireland and fellow resort owner Bobby Van Wormer pay the monthly salary of the federal fish and game officer who patrols the marine reserve, now a destination for snorkelers and scuba divers.
Harumi Fujita has traced the changing patterns in the exploitation of marine resources and in settlement within the prehistoric Cape Region. According to Fujita, after about AD 1000, four major centers of socioeconomic and ceremonial importance emerged in the Cape Region: near Cabo San Lucas, at Cabo Pulmo, at La Paz, and on Isla Espíritu Santo.
The Sistema Ripario de la Cuenca y Estero de San José del Cabo is a Ramsar site of 124,219 ha, which includes the San José oasis north of San José del Cabo and its watershed. [4] Cabo Pulmo National Park protects a portion of the eastern shoreline and offshore reefs.