Is this a Google glitch, or BOLA's proper name? The official Mexican maps list Bahia de Los Angeles with no Agua de las Flores in sight.larry - 8-5-2009 at 11:55 AM
Google Earth's labels are not official--I think they are posted by users. I would guess that what is marked is the site of a well.Bajahowodd - 8-5-2009 at 01:06 PM
I agree with Larry. Sometimes items are posted far from their actual location.tripledigitken - 8-5-2009 at 01:17 PM
I'm sure DK will post on this, but Las Flores is a gold and copper mining historic site just south of BOLA that you pass when you drive to Animas Bay
or San Francisquito.
Ken
[Edited on 8-5-2009 by tripledigitken]bajalou - 8-5-2009 at 01:26 PM
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Originally posted by larry
Google Earth's labels are not official--I think they are posted by users. I would guess that what is marked is the site of a well.
I don't think this particular one is a user post. Looks like from the Google data base of locations. This db includes many obscure locations which
are not on maps but probably were at sometime in the past. I've tried to locate some of these places and nothing is there when I get to the
coordinates.
Like you, I think probably a well at some past time.Sharksbaja - 8-5-2009 at 02:40 PM
Perhaps they gleaned geodata from obscure mining charts or geology surveys. It is possible that that reference point was in fact a well used for the
Flores mining operation.
Interesting.
btw, where is the aquifer in that area?larryC - 8-5-2009 at 03:00 PM
In the olden days the mining operations got their water from the spring in town. very possibly where the name came from.Barry A. - 8-5-2009 at 03:10 PM
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Originally posted by larryC
In the olden days the mining operations got their water from the spring in town. very possibly where the name came from.
---------and I always have wondered just "where" that spring water comes from, originally.
Barry
Not on my google Earth
BajaDanD - 8-5-2009 at 06:45 PM
Bahia de Los Angelas is what comes up on my computer With a gazillion photo links dotted all over the BOLA area
Everyone has a Bahia de Los Angelas heading along with what the picture is of.larryC - 8-6-2009 at 09:02 AM
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Originally posted by Barry A.
Quote:
Originally posted by larryC
In the olden days the mining operations got their water from the spring in town. very possibly where the name came from.
---------and I always have wondered just "where" that spring water comes from, originally.
Barry
Barry
Not sure where the water comes from "originally" (probably rain water) but it comes out of the ground just above where the pavement ends in town. The
ejido made a catchment and diverts the water to a pila, and then they dole it out to whoever wants it for 4 pesos a 55 gal. drum.
LarryBarry A. - 8-6-2009 at 09:16 AM
Thanks Larry for the info on that spring. I have always been interested in that particular spring, and have hiked all around it taking pics and just
observing how they capture, store, and utilize that water (being a southwesterner, I have always been a water-geek). It is an amazing spring in a
really dry area----thus my real curiosity in just where the water originates------------I feel that you are probably right in that it is "fossil
water" accumulated underground over centuries from the scant rainfall in the area, and/or the occasional tropical storm. This worries me, tho, as we
humans have a bad habit of using "fossil water" faster than it can be replaced, thus leading to eventual depletion of this live-giving source. As
long as the flow of the spring is not enhanced, (or wells drilled) this depletion will probably not happen, tho.
BarrySharksbaja - 8-6-2009 at 12:43 PM
Barry can you post a couple pics? Thanks.bajalou - 8-6-2009 at 12:53 PM
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Originally posted by BajaDanD
Bahia de Los Angelas is what comes up on my computer With a gazillion photo links dotted all over the BOLA area
Everyone has a Bahia de Los Angelas heading along with what the picture is of.
Turn off all of the "added content" to get rid of all the pictures etc. I just have layers "borders and Labels" and within that "Populated places",
Alternative place names" and "Labels" turned on. Then I'm down to the basic Google Earth data.
Google earth
BajaDanD - 8-6-2009 at 07:57 PM
I like the picturesBarry A. - 8-7-2009 at 07:54 AM
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Originally posted by Sharksbaja
Barry can you post a couple pics? Thanks.
Sharks------I don't have the ability to do that------all my pics are "slides".
I took them about 7 years ago-------now I only take digital pics.
