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David K
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GONZAGA BAY AREA MAPS 1746 to 2008
Here is a sample of some of the maps of Baja over the years, zoomed in on the area around Bahia San Luis Gonzaga (Punta Willard at north end) and
Ensenada de San Francisquito (Punta Final at south end)...
EDIT: 1746 map added, go to bottom...
1757 by Miguel Venegas (from Miguel de Barco's 'Ethnology and Linguistics of Baja California', Dawson Series #44)
1772 by Jacob Baegert (out of Dawson Series #45)
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1904
1905 Map of Mines and Roads in Lower California
1907 Map from Arthur North's 'Camp and Camino in Lower California'
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1941
1962 Map from Howard Gulick in the 'Lower California Guidebook'
1970 Map from Cliff Cross in the 'Baja California Mexico Guide'
1975 from the 'Baja California Guidebook'
2003 Baja California Almanac's folding map from Landon Crumpton
2008 National Geographic Adventure Travel Map
[Edited on 8-9-2013 by David K]
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Very interesting! Names seem to morph. As I travel there by road now, there are new names given to many of the campos.
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mike - que pasa on your adventura this past weekend??
go by Paradones??
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| Quote: | Originally posted by steekers
Very interesting! Names seem to morph. As I travel there by road now, there are new names given to many of the campos. |
Names get switched by map makers in Mexico City, as well!
I didn't show it, but the Mexican topo (which the Baja Almanac uses) switched the two bay names of Gonzaga. See the 1962 and 1970 maps for the correct
names. The northern, smaller bay between Papa Fernandez' and Alfonsina's is Bahia San Luis Gonzaga. It was the more sheltered bay and port for the
Spanish who off loaded supplies for the missions of Santa Maria and San Fernando there. Ruins of a warehouse are on the shore of the bay...
Yachties and boat maps like to call San Luis Gonzaga Bay "Willard Bay" (named after the point)...
The larger bay between Alfonsina's and Punta Final is Ensenada de San Francisquito. The connection is the water hole on the Camino Real called San
Francisquito (sometimes San Francisco) near Las Arrastras... the arroyo flows from there to this bay (merges with Arroyo Santa Maria). The gold ore
mill run by William Lacy overlooking Punta Final was called Molino de San Francisquito before Lacy died and it was renamed Molino de Lacy...
Ore was shipped out from Puerto de San Francisquito... today the vacation village called Punta Final.
Anyway, the topo map switched the two names... but pretty much everyone calls both bays "Gonzaga"...
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Time to do more close-up maps over the years of your favorite places in Baja? Just tell me where you would like to see how it showed up on maps from
the 1700's to today, and I will do my best!
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Hey David...check out Galleon Article postings. Just posted an offer for you there, but seeing these maps you may already have the book.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by paranewbi
Hey David...check out Galleon Article postings. Just posted an offer for you there, but seeing these maps you may already have the book.
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10-4!
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For old and new Nomads, I have many maps and am happy to share them with you. If there is an area of Baja you are interested in seeing on old or new
maps, let me know!
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Here's another, from the 1970 Auto Club guide to "Baja California del norte"
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roca burke at PF. havent heard that before.
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David K
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Yah, for Snoopy... aren't (old) maps great?!
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David K
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Here's the oldest map that names Bahia San Luis Gonzaga, made by the explorer who named it, in 1746 Padre Consag:
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More on the warehouse ruins...
Dr. Eric Ritter has been the lead archaeologists at many digs in Baja California. I just learned that INAH has published his paper on the dig at
Gonzaga Bay.
Here is the link with many interesting photos and drawings, charts.
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/488b16_d6a1399d09974ddd9dd3b0...
It is our belief that this warehouse was used to store off-loaded supplies and people intended for the San Fernando de Velicatá and other missions to
the north, shipped to Gonzaga Bay from Loreto in the 1770s and 1780s.
Here is a photo from the 1950s of the warehouse ruins by Howard Gulick, in whose book most of us learned what they were...
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Nice collection
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Coco has a "map" of sorts on his wall of Gonzaga Bay. If I recall correctly, he said he flew over the area in the 50s, and made a painting that hangs
next to his bed in the main room.
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Very cool! I will appreciate the place even more when I visit next month!
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I noticed a trail angling up the mountain kind of east ish from the margarita drinking area at Alfonsinas and I could see it was too small to have
been made by machinery and too regular for animals. I asked Joaquin what he knew about it and he told me the story he was told the Padres would post
the locals up there to light a signal fire 🔥 so the ship from the mainland wouldn't miss them. Fact or fiction, I would like to know.
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All leads to the unanswered question who is Willard ? And is he related to the infamous Willardguy??
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willard was papa's pet duck 
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Interesting that the 2008 Nat Geo map doesn't show the correct route across Chapala to Hwy 1.
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