Cabo San Lucas
— — where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortez through a hole in the rock.
Not only on a wall.
“The last town on Baja California Sur, where the peninsula runs out of land and two oceans meet at a granite arch called El Arco. The Pacific is colder and the Sea of Cortez warmer; the line between them is visible from a boat on a calm morning. The town was a sleepy cannery harbour until the road came down from La Paz in 1973. Grey whales calve in these waters every winter, on the southern end of a 10,000-mile migration from the Arctic. from the studio
Cabo San Lucas, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Cabo San Lucas sits at 22.89°N at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, 1,055 miles south of the United States border at Tijuana. It forms the western half of the municipality of Los Cabos, paired with San José del Cabo 20 miles up the coast. The town faces a natural deep-water harbour ringed by granite headlands, and beyond them the meeting point of the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California, called locally the Sea of Cortez. The Transpeninsular Highway reached the cape in 1973 and opened the region to land travel.
El Arco, the granite arch at Land's End, marks the exact point where the Pacific meets the Sea of Cortez. Pacific water on the western side runs around 18°C in winter and the Sea of Cortez side around 23°C, a thermocline visible as a colour line on still mornings. Pacific grey whales travel the coast each December through April, calving in the warm lagoons of Magdalena Bay and Ojo de Liebre to the north, the southern end of one of the longest mammal migrations on earth.
The town runs on a clear weather calendar. October through May is dry and warm, with daytime temperatures from 22°C to 30°C and a near-zero chance of rain. June through September is hurricane season in the eastern Pacific, when humidity climbs and the occasional named storm tracks up the peninsula. Sportfishing tournaments fill late October and early November, the Bisbee Black and Blue Marlin Tournament being the largest by purse. The grey whales arrive in mid-December and the last cows leave by early April.