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gueribo
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Bumping this up to add one more photo of La Presentación that I recently found. Marquis McDonald c. 1950:
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if anyone is going to see La Presentacion in the near future - I recently found what looks like a large man made structure (maybe a Muralla) between
the church and the Attoyo
go check it out for us - please
Harald Pietschmann
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David K
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A canal maybe?
Gueribo, great find on the McDonald photo from 1950. In his book, he only shows the outside photo. He and his war buddy, traveling in an open-air
Willys-Jeep (MB or CJ-2A) for the better part of a year in Baja just to see and photograph every mission site.
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David K
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185 (1949-1950) photos from Marquis McDonald: https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/search?f%5Bcollection_sim%5D%5B%...
Many are duplicates, many are mislabeled, some are reversed.
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gueribo
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Here's a side-by-side--from 1950 and 2019. That poor little cholla in the doorway chose the wrong place to grow!
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David K
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Thanks for the side by side.
We live in a time of transition... in our generation and one or two before, we see intact historic monuments crumble from lack of maintenance,
repairs, and maybe lack of interest.
Our photographs and those taken before we traveled the peninsula are the only preservation these ignored sites get.
Thanks go to the authors of Baja travel guides and travel adventures of the past that we got to learn about these sites and where they are.
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shari
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thanks for sharing this wonderful gem with us...these are the Baja places that more people should see and experience.
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David K
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Quote: Originally posted by shari  | thanks for sharing this wonderful gem with us...these are the Baja places that more people should see and experience.
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I so agree... Baja is many things and fishing and surfing are not the only draw of the peninsula. A few of us like to see places in this harsh land
where people tried to live, hundreds and thousands of years ago. The old mines, Spanish missions, Indian cave art, are so numerous it boggles the mind
how it all is so concentrated on this long narrow finger of land!
[Edited on 7-4-2019 by David K]
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Harald, you are right!
I was at La Presentación last week and there is a giant dike about 300 meters (~1,000 feet) long and about 2.5 meters (~7.5 feet) high that runs
between the arroyo and the visita site. Humberto said it was ordered built by the missionaries in order to protect the chapel and the fields during
flash floods. He said there are records somewhere that discuss the building of the muralla and that it was built in 2 years. He and I both agreed that
it would have been a Herculean task for the natives to build this wall. The boulders are huge and some split perfectly in half to make the wall.
I encourage everyone who visits to hire Humberto as a guide. He is great and very knowledgeable. He is the de facto caretaker for this site and he
makes sure it is kept clean and not vandalized. He charged only 200 pesos for the tour (I gave him 500). He was very nice and gracious. I look forward
to going back and having him show me the cave paintings in the area.
 
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David K
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Awesome!
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Does anyone have contact info for Humberto?
Facebook.com/Gerald Beltran
Casas & Condos for rent in La Paz...$100US per/month.....Daily & weekly rates also.
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