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Guide to San Felipe, Baja, Mexico, including accommodations, activities, business, culture, history, real estate, photo gallery and more.
Description
Located 120 miles south of the Mexican border on the northwestern Baja, San Felipe is an entertainment, a frustration, a wonder and a paradox. The convergence of the Sierra San Felipe and the San Pedro Martir ranges form a wide, rocky horseshoe. A few adventurous peaks break away from this formation and collect on the east side of Highway 5. The town of San Felipe leans like a small book of sonnets against two of these sloping giants. To the west, through sheer energy of disposition, the parent range continues its errant and unathletic run southward another hundred miles. Unassuming in the eyes of a true mountain man, the range is impressive enough to the citizens of San Felipe. Picacho del Diablo, one of its peaks, shoulders up over ten thousand feet into the air. In winter, its summit is often a claw of snow and ice. For those who have uncontrolled geologic zeal, try this site for a chiropractic history of the Baja's granite bones.
It is nearly always sunny in San Felipe, warm for most of the year and something of a smithy's forge in the summer months. This is because the town has chosen to sleep in a desert, part of the Gran Desierto, the scorched, juiceless area that begins in the northwestern corner of the state of Sonora.
Of course, without water there can be no community. But San Felipe is blessed with reasonably clean water, drawn from an underground river located several miles south of town. The water is piped through pumping stations into town and plumbed into homes that can afford it or transported in pipas, great lumbering trucks with huge sloshing water tanks on their backs. These trucks supply the outlying campos and communities.
Languages
English
Contact
- Shadetree Computer Services
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- Calexico California
- United States 92231
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- 7603525571
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