Malarrimo - meaning?

Quote: Originally posted by lencho

Quote: Originally posted by David K   Well documented in older Baja books. Which are about as credible as our suppositions on this forum unless one of those authors was able to actually track down the origin of that word.

I recognize you as the Spanish language expert here. Can you please verify if this is correct or even close for the meaning of Malarrimo?:
"Bad to get near..." Mal, bad; arrimar, to get near.
Gracias.

As for the historical use of the name, it has been applied to the "hook" of Baja coast and a point there for ages. Sailors knew it was a potential death trap, thus 'bad to be near.'

In 1888:


The Malarrimo Restaurant in Guerrero Negro is named after the coast there... Just walk inside and see all the Mike McMahan photos of his discoveries in the 1960s or earlier. It was begun after the highway was completed, in 1974.

Here is from the website www.malarrimo.com/en:

"MALARRIMO" is the name of a lonely beach in BCS where, above North to South, the current named Marina of California whose waters are extremely cold and turbulent, which made the navigator Sebastián Vizcaíno the great Spanish explorer, indicated in his letters of navigation as a great breakwater with winds and raging sea that succumbs in the few deep sandbars that as Neruda said it is not known if they leave the sea or want to enter it. To this mysterious and solitary place called Sebastián Vizcaíno the beach of Malarrimo.

The place of the lost things, because the currents that come from Japan and Alaska, have deposited for years, great amount of objects that floating in the Sea, arrive and stay on the beach such as: gigantic trunks of the great forests of States United States and Canada, as well as marine objects, corpses of drowned, blown glass buoys made in Japan since before the plastic existed as floating in the end, a great variety of objects that for years have traveled in the Pacific Ocean and have been deposited in This huge beach.

Quote: Originally posted by lencho

"Arrimo" is an approach (from the verb "arrimar", to approach), so a strong possibility is that it means something like "bad approach" (probably from the point of view of sailors).

Quote: Originally posted by lencho

Quote: Originally posted by David K   Can you please verify if this is correct or even close for the meaning of Malarrimo?: Nope. Without tracking back to those who coined it, we're just guessing. As I said above, if it's from Spanish it *likely* means something like "bad approach" (first meanings in the RAE), but considering other meanings of the word it might indicate "bad shelter", i.e. no friendly anchorage along that passage.

Quote: Originally posted by TMW

There are treasures to be had by combing thru the junk at Malarrimo beach. We've found cameras that still work, new wet suits, millions of flip flops, lures and lots of other stuff. To my regret I never found any booze only empty bottles.

you did good! all i've ever found out there is uninteresting garbage.

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Quote: Originally posted by TMW   There are treasures to be had by combing thru the junk at Malarrimo beach. We've found cameras that still work, new wet suits, millions of flip flops, lures and lots of other stuff. To my regret I never found any booze only empty bottles. you did good! all i've ever found out there is uninteresting garbage.

Mike McMahan was famous for his discoveries on Playa Malarrimo. The new lagoon that opened up just west of the Scammon's Lagoon opening was named after Mike...



Mike published his book in 1973, and there was a 1974 edition (with the above map added).



In 1983, a paperback edition of the same book but with a different title was published.



His Malarrimo findings were historic!



Most know Mike McMahan from his big Baja wall maps (this is an image of the 1972 edition from the back cover of his book):

Quote: Originally posted by windgrrl

An explanation from Baja Bound: https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/guerrero...

I might of lost my virginity in Tijuana in 1963, how does that rank me in time in Baja?