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Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park/East Cape
The Sea of Cortez was created over five of water on our planet. Also known as the ecosystem. A few hours east of the main
million years ago as a result of Baja Gulf of California, this diverse sea morphs tourist areas of Los Cabos, Cabo Pulmo is a
California slowly separating from the Mexi- from shallow, silty waters in the north to large, calm bay fronted by a small village of
can mainland along the San Andreas Fault. 12,000-foot deep submarine canyons in the same name. It is also famous for being
The earth’s newest sea is home to over 800 the southern region. In the southernmost the location of the only coral reef system in
species of marine vertebrates and 2,000 part of the Sea of Cortez, Cabo Pulmo is by the Northeastern Pacific Ocean.
invertebrates—more than any other body far the best place to explore this unique
