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San Felipe (Kiliwa: Juwiy mja') [2] is a coastal city in San Felipe Municipality, Baja California, located on the Gulf of California. [3] The population of San Felipe was reported as 17,143 inhabitants in the 2020 Mexican Census. [ 1 ]
San Felipe is the newest municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California. Inaugurated on 1 January 2022, it is located approximately 190 kilometres (120 mi) south of Mexicali , the state capital.
San Felipe Valley, was home of Native American people and in the 19th century a village site was located in the valley near Scissors Crossing.The land route opened in 1828 between Sonora, Mexico and Alta California, the Sonora Road passed up the valley to Warner's Pass at the top of the valley on its way to Los Angeles.
At this point it becomes a two-lane highway (with little or no shoulder in most areas) until km 160, about 18 km (11 mi) south of the junction with Fed. 3, and about 40 km (24 mi) north of San Felipe. From there, the highway is a broad, divided, four-lane highway with a median and ample shoulders, until it ends in San Felipe.
The town of Puertecitos is located 90 kilometers south of San Felipe, in the Mexican state of Baja California. Puertecitos is a tourist spot for both vacationers and expatriates from the United States. The Puertecitos bay, which was permanently settled in 1949 by Rafael Orozco, overlooks the Gulf of California. There are a couple of hundred ...
The largest municipality by population in Baja California and in Mexico is Tijuana with 1,922,523 residents, representing around half (51%) of the population of the state. The smallest municipality by population is San Felipe: the areas which now make up San Felipe recorded a population of 18,369 inhabitants in the 2010 Mexican Census. [9]
San Felipe International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional de San Felipe) (IATA: SFH, ICAO: MMSF) is a small international airport located 11 km (6.8 mi) south of San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico. It handles the air traffic for San Felipe.
San Felipe Lake is a sag pond dammed by the fault scarp of the Calaveras Fault, which runs along the western shoreline of the lake.The lake is approximately 0.3 miles (0.48 km) wide and 0.6 miles (0.97 km) long, with a surface area of 0.12 square miles (31 ha), but is estimated to be less than 50-60% of its original summer size since construction of the outflows to the Miller Canal.