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Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  | this is getting better every day
trying to locate the routing of this early road system on Goggle Earth is extremely difficult |
You are in luck!
I have the old road located in a series on Nomad... El Rosario to San Ignacio.
South of Bahia Concepcion, the main road went to Comondu and over to the Pacific side, then south.
Here is the series...
Maps, Google Earth, etc.:
Part 1: http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=48770
(links to and from the other parts are in there)
Edit: I bumped up all 4 parts.
[Edited on 2-8-2015 by David K]
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David K
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Thank Tom... great reading... dirt road to Ensenada back then!
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you rock, David!
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"Loreto: This is a small town of little interest."
Also interesting that in Mulege "malaria is prevalent."
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Yup, great stuff StuckSucks... Books and Maps are Baja time machines...
Always happy to help a fellow Nomad, Harald!
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This may be of interest to you Harald:
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very much so - now I have to find what's left of those roads
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I can remember traveling on parts 2, 3, and 5, in 1966... also the pavement ended 4 miles north of Colonet that year and didn't begin again until
about 100 miles north of La Paz. South of La Paz pavement ended in 10 miles and new graded roadbed ran to San Bartolo... on to Cabo was all on a
single lane wide dirt track, not graded!
Colonet to El Rosario pavement was pretty much on top of the dirt road of the time.
El Rosario to Rosarito (the one west of San Borja) the new highway was built on, next to, or within a couple of miles of the old road. It probably
helped with moving people and machinery.
However, from Rosarito to south of El Tablon (near today's town Vizcaino), the new highway deviated far from the old main road, in order to serve the
growing salt mine town of Guerrero Negro, instead of little El Arco (a gold mine town of the 1930's).
The next big deviation came just south of Bahia Concepcion, as the new highway serviced Loreto when the old road totally bypassed it by going through
Comondu (some went through La Purisima). Loreto was off on a side road... a dead end to about 1955 when an auto road was built from Loreto to San
Javier, and out to meet the main road near Santo Domingo (north of today's Insurgentes).
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now all this needs to be translated to Goggle Earth
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David K
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I like the way you use the word "needs" (I agree)!
I hope my GE images help... drop me an email if you have any questions!
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