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misterious production site

4x4abc - 8-11-2018 at 04:24 PM

anyone know what this is?
25°15'24.54"N, 112° 4'31.31"W

AKgringo - 8-11-2018 at 05:44 PM

I fumbled around long enough to view the site, but don't know how to post the image here.

I'm curious, possibly a water treatment plant? Why don't you plan on tightening up that broken leg bone a little more, and we can go check it out in October!

Howard - 8-11-2018 at 06:07 PM

I could be wrong but I believe its the home of the Chupacabra's.

It could also be the Baja version of area 51.

Actually it could be both.
:biggrin:

Skipjack Joe - 8-11-2018 at 06:40 PM

Did you mean this?

It looks like some kind of a barge. Have no idea.

Maybe a Star Wars prop.

Screen Shot 2018-08-11 at 6.34.49 PM.jpg - 196kB

[Edited on 8-12-2018 by Skipjack Joe]

bajagrouper - 8-12-2018 at 10:19 AM

I believe that is the desalinization plant that came from Germany some years back to take salt water and tun to fresh for crops in the Magdalena Plain.......With the pumping station on the land part.

[Edited on 8-12-2018 by bajagrouper]

sanquintinsince73 - 8-12-2018 at 11:45 AM

More than likely a desalination plant. Plans are also in the works for such a plant in San Quintin......or so I was told a couple weeks ago while down there.

SFandH - 8-12-2018 at 11:57 AM

I've walked around there. Whatever it was, it ain't no more. Looked to be abandoned for years.

David K - 8-12-2018 at 04:00 PM

Bummer that I didn't know about that place when I was in Lopez Mateos last August... looks to be just 5 miles north of town on a graded road. Some ground-based photos, anyone?

willardguy - 8-13-2018 at 10:58 AM

this was an ambitious and evidently failed project, come on somebody's got to have the scoop on this?

BajaMama - 8-13-2018 at 11:34 AM

There is a failed hydroponic plant just outside Punta Chivato - built it before they figured out there was no water. 27 02 02 N 112 02 56 W

Crazy!

4x4abc - 8-13-2018 at 07:18 PM

there are several abandoned production sites and harbors around Magdalena Bay. One of them a US Naval site from around 1900 on Isla Magdalena.

mtgoat666 - 8-13-2018 at 07:49 PM

Quote: Originally posted by David K  
Bummer that I didn't know about that place when I was in Lopez Mateos last August...


All that google-earthing and you never saw that before?

Paco Facullo - 8-13-2018 at 07:57 PM

The Baja, she is a large and mysterious place !

One could spend a couple of lifetimes and not discover it all, many have tried....

tehag - 8-13-2018 at 08:25 PM

I've been on that thing several times. There used to be a shellfish farm in the channel just past that concrete pier. They loaded and unloaded large craft there while the farm was operating. The buildings around there, some now housing squatting fishermen, were living quarters for employees and equipment sheds.

CJ - 8-14-2018 at 11:46 AM

The barge was taken there when they were dredging for phosphorus in the estero. The abandoned buildings were housing and offices for the project.
The first time I was there, there was rigging and other stuff on the barge, over the last twelve years or so the rateros have stripped it for anything that could be salvaged and sold.

4x4abc - 8-14-2018 at 01:47 PM

here is another interesting one:
24°30'33.48"N, 111°50'24.17"W

4x4abc - 8-14-2018 at 04:35 PM

solved the first one:
Rofomex Fosforico

https://www.sdpnoticias.com/local/baja-california-sur/2015/1...

StuckSucks - 8-14-2018 at 05:07 PM

Quote: Originally posted by BajaMama  
There is a failed hydroponic plant just outside Punta Chivato - built it before they figured out there was no water. 27 02 02 N 112 02 56 W

Crazy!


https://goo.gl/maps/39a3FZky1172

StuckSucks - 8-14-2018 at 05:10 PM

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
here is another interesting one:
24°30'33.48"N, 111°50'24.17"W


https://goo.gl/maps/3jhrRqSVvB82

John Harper - 8-14-2018 at 05:53 PM

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
One of them a US Naval site from around 1900 on Isla Magdalena.


Got coordinates on that one?

John

How about here?

AKgringo - 8-14-2018 at 06:02 PM

This is kind of fun! I have been to this site, it should be easy to guess.

https://www.google.com/maps/@24.9193913,-110.710963,1235m/da...

David K - 8-14-2018 at 08:21 PM

Keep it going, you guys!
Look for the lost mission of Santa Isabel, while you are at it!
We were shown a possible site for it in 2011, so a bunch of us Nomads went on a search. It was great fun and Baja Lou's final Baja adventure. http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=52696

Here is what got us going: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=51399

An article in Baja Bound Magazine: https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/lost_mis...

[Edited on 8-15-2018 by David K]

4x4abc - 8-15-2018 at 04:49 PM

Quote: Originally posted by John Harper  
Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
One of them a US Naval site from around 1900 on Isla Magdalena.


Got coordinates on that one?

John


one in La Paz:
U.S. Navy coaling station (1866-1925)
24°15'38.09"N, 110°19'56.17"W

one on Isla Magdalena:
US Navy station 1900
24°35'3.22"N, 112° 4'39.41"W

[Edited on 8-16-2018 by 4x4abc]

DouglasP - 10-24-2018 at 08:29 AM

Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks  
Quote: Originally posted by BajaMama  
There is a failed hydroponic plant just outside Punta Chivato - built it before they figured out there was no water. 27 02 02 N 112 02 56 W

Crazy!


https://goo.gl/maps/39a3FZky1172


Does anyone know the back story on this place? Went by the other day, it has cinder block dwellings and a court yard along with the metal skeleton of a warehouse. Who were the investors? If heard Japanese and also French. Haven't been able to find anything on the googles about it.