"Islas Coronado".

The Coronado Islands are a group of four islands off the northwest coast of the Mexican state of Baja California. Battered by the wind and waves, they are largely unfertile and uninhabited except for a small military detachment and a few lighthouse keepers. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 347 pixelsFull resolution (800 × 347 pixel, file size: 64 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Coronado Islands Taken by the user: Scalif scalif@msn. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 347 pixelsFull resolution (800 × 347 pixel, file size: 64 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Coronado Islands Taken by the user: Scalif scalif@msn. ... The United Mexican States or Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México) is a federal republic made up of 31 states (estados) and one Federal District, (Distrito Federal), which contains the capital, Mexico City. ... Baja California (literally lower California in Spanish) is the northernmost state of Mexico. ...

The Coronado Islands

The Coronado Islands are a Mexican wildlife refuge, you may anchor, scuba and snorkel all you like, but trips ashore are not allowed.

• North Coronado has no bay but boats can anchor on a jetty on the eastern side.
  • Location 32°28′N, 117°18′W
  • Size 460,000 m²
  • Height 153 m
  • Length 800 m

• Pilón de Azúcar is very hard to land on. It has little or no attractiveness. It has little vegetation but there is a flock of birds that rest here.
  • Location 32°25′N, 117°16′W
  • Size 70,000 m²
  • Height 33 m

• Central Coronado has a rocky peak with a heap of cactus and scrubs near the summit.
  • Location 32°25′N, 117°16′W
  • Size 140,000 m²
  • Height 32 m

• South Coronado has the only bay of the islands, called 'Puerto Cueva'. It has a lighthouse on each extreme.
  • Location 32°25′N, 117°15′W
  • Size 1.83 km²
  • Height 220 m
  • Length 3200 m
  • Width 800 m

Genera See Taxonomy of the Cactaceae A cactus (plural cacti, cactuses or cactus) is any member of the succulent plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. ...

History

The Coronado Islands are part of the municipality of Tijuana, Baja California, as ruled in the books of the Baja Californian Government, published on December 20, 1959: Tijuana is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California. ... Baja California (literally lower California in Spanish) is the northernmost state of Mexico. ... is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Article 7 - the state of Baja California is divided and understood as the following municipalities .... Tijuana. Baja California (literally lower California in Spanish) is the northernmost state of Mexico. ...

c) The Municipality of Tijuana is made up of ..... in addition; The Coronado Islands correspond to the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Tijuana, which lie on the extremes of the municipality to the Pacific Ocean. Tijuana (Spanish [tixwana], English usually [ˌtiːəˈwɑnə]), is the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California and the seat of the municipality of Tijuana. ...

In September 1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo described them as islas desiertas (desert islands). In 1602 the priest for Sebastián Vizcaíno called them Los Cuatro Coronados (the four crowns) to honour four martyrs. Although they have been called a dozen other names (later fisherman upon seeing floating coffins, ghostly faces and shrouded bodies amid the rocks dubbed them: Old Stone Face, The Sarcophagi, Dead Man's Island, and Corpus Christi), they also have also been provocatively called The Sentries of San Diego Bay even though they belong to Mexico. João Rodrigues Cabrilho Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo (Portuguese: João Rodrigues Cabrilho) (ca. ... Sebastián Vizcaíno (1548-1624) was a Spanish soldier, entrepreneur, explorer, and diplomat whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Philippines, the Baja California peninsula, Alta California, and Japan. ...

In the 1920's and 1930's, during prohibition, the cove on the Northeast side of South Coronado Island was used as a meeting place for booze smugglers. Since it was the time before radar, and as foggy nights are common, the large number of boats frequently resulted in collisions. There was so much traffic that a famous casino flourished there until well into the depression. Only the stone foundation remains though the name Smugglers Cove, and more rarely Casino Cove, adorn modern maps.

In May 1943 the USS PC-815 commanded by L. Ron Hubbard conducted unauthorized gunnery exercises involving the shelling of the Coronado Islands, in the belief they were uninhabited and belonged to the United States. Unfortunately for Hubbard, the islands belonged to neutral Mexico and were occupied by the Mexican Coast Guard. The Mexican government complained and Hubbard was relieved of command. USS PC-815 was a PC-416 class subchaser assigned to the United States Navys Pacific Fleet during World War II. Commissioned in Portland, Oregon on April 20, 1943, Lieutenant (J.G.) Lafayette Ronald Hubbard in command, she served as a shore patrol vessel off the west coast of... Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (13 March 1911 – 24 January 1986), better known as L. Ron Hubbard, was an American fiction writer,[1][2][3], former United States Navy officer and creator of Dianetics and founder of the Church of Scientology. ...

Flora and fauna

On the North and South Coronados there are dahlias, various species of cactus, wild cucumber and Houseleek. Species 30 species, 20,000 cultivars Dahlia is a genus of bushy, summer- and autumn-flowering, tuberous perennial plants native to Mexico, where they are the national flower. ... Genera See Taxonomy of the Cactaceae A cactus (plural cacti, cactuses or cactus) is any member of the succulent plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. ... Binomial name L. The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon. ... Species Sempervivum altum Sempervivum arachnoideum Sempervivum armenum Sempervivum atlanticum Sempervivum ballsii Sempervivum borissovae Sempervivum calcareum Sempervivum cantabricum Sempervivum caucasicum Sempervivum ciliosum Sempervivum davisii Sempervivum dolomiticum Sempervivum erythraeum Sempervivum glabrifolium Sempervivum ingwersenii Sempervivum kindingeri Sempervivum kosaninii Sempervivum leucanthum Sempervivum macedonicum Sempervivum marmoreum Sempervivum minus Sempervivum montanum Sempervivum nevadense Sempervivum octopodes Sempervivum...

There are few colonies of birds like seagulls, pelicans, petrels, and ducks. Seagull or Seagulls may refer to: Gull, a family of seabird, members of which are often called seagulls. ... Species Pelecanus occidentalis Pelecanus thagus Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Pelecanus onocrotalus Pelecanus crispus Pelecanus rufescens Pelecanus philippensis Pelecanus conspicillatus A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae. ... The petrels are seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes. ... Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Aythyinae Merginae Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae family of birds. ...

Ten species of reptiles and amphibians are also found in the islands. The best known is the Coronado rattlesnake, which is a smaller species from the one found on the mainland. There is also the Coronado snake, which feeds off birds' eggs, the Coronado lizard, which is found in all four islands, and the tree salamanders which live on the three biggest islands. Plated lizards are found on the south and central islands. Species 27 species; see list of rattlesnake species and subspecies. ... Families Salamander is the common name applied to approximately 500 amphibian vertebrates with slender bodies, short legs, and long tails (order Caudata or Urodela). ...

There are two types of mammals in the islands: rabbits and mice. How they reached the islands is currently unknown.

Sea mammals are plentiful and it is not uncommon to see groups of sea lions, seals and sea otters. Genera Eumetopias Zalophus Otaria Neophoca Phocarctos A sea lion rookery at Monterey, California A sea lion is any of several marine mammals of the family Otariidae. ... Families Odobenidae Otariidae Phocidae Pinnipeds (fin-feet, lit. ... Binomial name Enhydra lutris (Linnaeus, 1758) The Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) is a large otter native to the North Pacific, from northern Japan and Kamchatka west across the Aleutian Islands south to California. ...