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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 ...
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 ...
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 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.
"Cabo Pulmo National Park is a high biodiversity area and has a large cover of coral populations settled on long basaltic dykes that run parallel to the coast. The Mexican government declared the area a Marine National Park in 1995, covering 71 km2 of coastal and offshore reefs.