Old Cabo, Los Cabos Pictures Photographs, Images, Videos and Pictures of old Cabo San Lucas, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Old Cabo Pictures is a digital photo gallery of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico in the early years. Our goal is to create an archive of […]
read moreThe period from 1850-1900 was a defining epoch for the Baja California peninsula. From the end of the Mexican-American War–when the territory was narrowly saved from inclusion in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo–to the end of the 19th century, Baja California was the object of intense scrutiny from American interests, who attempted to extract money […]
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A Brief History of Los Cabos, Pt. VIII: Filibusters, Freebooters and Rebels The period from 1850-1900 was a defining epoch for the Baja California peninsula. From the end of the Mexican-American War–when the territory was narrowly saved from inclusion in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo–to the end of the 19th century, Baja California was the […]
read moreTimeline Los Cabos History 13000 bce 1900 Timeline Los Cabos History 13000 bce 1900 – 13,000 BCE – Estimated arrival date for the Pericúes in present day Baja California Sur. It is believed that Cape Region’s first inhabitants came by raft from Melanesia. 1492 – Cristóbal Colón “discovers” the Americas, coming ashore at San Salvador […]
read moreTourist season is virtually year-round at this point, but a traditional start to the season is still delineated each October, when there are a flurry of notable events. This year alone there are three big-time fishing tournaments–the Los Cabos Billfish Tournament, and Bisbee’s Los Cabos Offshore and Black and Blue–a series of Sammy Hagar Birthday […]
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A Brief History of Los Cabos, Part VII: The Mexican–American War The middle decades of the 19th century were a time of intense conflict in Baja California, not only with the United States government, whose army and navy invaded during the Mexican–American War, but also with many U.S. citizens, who saw the sparsely populated peninsula […]
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A Brief History of Los Cabos, Pt. VI: The End of the Mission System and the Birth of Cabo San Lucas Learn more about the history of Cabo San Lucas and the Los Cabos area of Baja California Sur, Mexico. As the 19th century dawned in Baja California, the peninsular population was suffering on a number […]
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Culture of Cabo: A Q and A with Director of the Cabo San Lucas Museum of Natural History Roberto Cuétara has been working in museums for more than 50 years, and anyone who has visited cultural heritage sites in Baja California Sur–from Loreto to La Paz to Los Cabos–has almost certainly been exposed, knowingly or not, […]
read moreCulture of Cabo: A Q and A with Director of the Cabo San Lucas Museum of Natural History Part Two of Three Parts Did you continue to work in Baja California Sur at that point? Yes, I did. In 1980 the people of Baja California Sur expressed a desire for a museum of regional history […]
read moreA Brief History of Los Cabos, Pt. V: The Arrival of Franciscan and Dominican Missionaries in California Learn more about the history of Cabo San Lucas and the Los Cabos area of Baja California Sur, Mexico. On the final day of November in the year 1767, a ship carrying the first appointed governor of California, Don […]
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