Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
La Paz (pronounced [la ˈpas] ⓘ, English: "peace") is the capital and largest city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, with a 2020 census population of 250,141 inhabitants, [1] making it the most populous city in the state.
Mission La Paz was established by the Jesuit missionaries Juan de Ugarte and Jaime Bravo in 1720 [1] and financed by the marquis José de la Puente , at the location of the modern city of La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. La Paz was the location of the earliest Spanish activity in Baja California, and was frequently the site of conflicts ...
The list of Baja California Peninsula hurricanes includes all of the tropical cyclones that impacted the Baja California Peninsula, which includes the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur. In the period 1951 to 2000, Baja California had one hurricane and three tropical storms make landfall.
The Our Lady of Peace Cathedral [1] (Spanish: Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Paz) [2] or La Paz Cathedral is a Catholic church in the center of the city of La Paz, Baja California Sur, [3] western Mexico [4] that is the seat of the Diocese of La Paz. It is located where the mission was founded by the Jesuits in the eighteenth century.
La Paz is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Its area of 20,275 km 2 (7,828 sq mi) makes it the municipality in Mexico with the fourth-largest area. [1] It had a population of 290,286 inhabitants in the 2015 census. [2] Its municipal seat, also named La Paz, is the state capital.
Baja California Sur, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur, [b] is the least populated state and the last state to be admitted to Mexico, in 1974. It is also the ninth-largest Mexican state in terms of area.
"The survival of the dart-thrower on the peninsula of Baja California". Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 17 (1): 81– 93. Mathes, W. Michael (1973). The Conquistador in California: 1535. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop. Mathes, W. Michael (1975). "Some new observations relative to the indigenous inhabitants of La Paz, Baja California Sur".
La Paz — the capital city of Baja California Sur state and seat of La Paz Municipality, in northwestern Mexico. Located on the Gulf of California coast of the Baja California Peninsula . Subcategories