The southern boundary of 'Central Baja' is .... ? A fun poll

OK, so with a whopping 18 votes, five more Nomads believed Cataviña/ Gonzaga Bay is where Central Baja begins over El Rosario/ (Puertecitos). No votes for San Quintín or Colonet/ San Felipe.

As promised, this follow-up poll is asking you to pick where is the southern end of 'Central Baja'???

Use the map to help visualize locations.

Vizcaíno?

Abreojos / San Ignacio?



[Edited on 10-7-2021 by BajaNomad]

Bottom of Concepción Bay has the most votes, so far. That, coupled with the Cataviña/ Gonzaga north limit vote, is what the handful of Nomads think is Central Baja. Keep voting if you think this is not a good representation of the land that is neither northern nor southern Baja:

Seriously?

Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666

Tropic of Cancer is my dividing line. But the poll maker must be trying to skew the poll, as Tropic of Cancer was not offered as a choice!

Goat's Central Baja:

Quote: Originally posted by mtgoat666

There is no central baja as you refer to it. There are biogeographic provinces. The desert provinces stretch from SQ to la Paz (not counting San Felipe, as it is an armpit area). You seem to be focused on population density, and not biology or geography,… so why don’t you define your Central area as sparsely populated and base it in INEGI census maps?

Perhaps you can use telcel cell phone map to define the unpopulated middle areas you consider to be centra baja…



La paz to sq is the answer, end of debate!



[Edited on 10-7-2021 by mtgoat666]

Quote: Originally posted by JZ

El Rosario to Santa Rosalia is the correct answer. [Edited on 10-7-2021 by JZ]

Quote: Originally posted by BajaNomad

a) Vizcaíno? b) Abreojos / San Ignacio?

Quote: Originally posted by BajaMama

I would include Loreto in the southern section - it is not a really big town,. still has rural flavor. I have never been to C. Constitution or south of there so cat speak to it.

Quote: Originally posted by JZ

Based on the low number of ppl who have voted on your poll, and the majority of those saying the end of Concepcion, I think that tells you, you need to add some more Northerly points. I held my nose and voted for Concepcion to see the results. It's either San Ignacio or Santa Rosalia. SR make a lot more sense though. It covers the end of what one would think of as the central coast on the Pacific side. Just ties it off nicely.

I first responded El Rosario to Santa Rosalia. Much of it has to do with identity to me. People flying into Loreto don't quite understand what it's like in Vizcaino

Quote: Originally posted by Skipjack Joe

Another viewpoint: Central Baja is the stretch of Baja inhabited by those who painted the rocks and caves - from somewhere between Catavina and El Rosario to the Mulege area.

Quote: Originally posted by Bajaboy

Quote: Originally posted by JZ   Based on the low number of ppl who have voted on your poll, and the majority of those saying the end of Concepcion, I think that tells you, you need to add some more Northerly points. I held my nose and voted for Concepcion to see the results. It's either San Ignacio or Santa Rosalia. SR make a lot more sense though. It covers the end of what one would think of as the central coast on the Pacific side. Just ties it off nicely. I first responded El Rosario to Santa Rosalia. Much of it has to do with identity to me. People flying into Loreto don't quite understand what it's like in Vizcaino

Another way to approach this question of dividing Baja into thirds, could have been to ID northern and southern Baja... and what was not included in those polls would automatically be 'central Baja'.

The northern third (so far) seems to extend ~200 miles south of the US border (i.e. El Rosario or Gonzaga Bay). If we apply the same distance logic to the southern third, the south end of Magdalena Bay (200 miles north from Cabo) would be the divider. Many have expressed Santa Rosalia/ San Ignacio as being where southern Baja begins, but those two places are about 1/2 the distance down the peninsula from the US border and about 50 miles south of the state border.

That kind of division looks like:


Northern Baja


Central Baja


Southern Baja


Pretty generous to have 'southern Baja' be close to half of the peninsula!

Any minds changed?
I think I still like Concepción Bay and maybe Loreto in Central Baja.

Anyway, this was just a fun exercise. Keeps us talking about Baja!