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nandopedal
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Mystery rock lines
Ok, last spring when traveling from San Juanico to San Ignacio Lagoon on the "High road" we spotted a series of parallel lines on a slope made out of
rocks, we did not stop and I almost forgot about it but today I started searching on Goggle earth and bingo! Does anybody knows about them? This are
the GE coordinates: (26.5702547,-112.7391995)
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Quote: Originally posted by nandopedal  | | Ok, last spring when traveling from San Juanico to San Ignacio Lagoon on the "High road" we spotted a series of parallel lines on a slope made out of
rocks, we did not stop and I almost forgot about it but today I started searching on Goggle earth and bingo! Does anybody knows about them? This are
the GE coordinates: (26.5702547,-112.7391995) |
Are those lines of rocks on a hillside? They almost look like contour lines on a topo map.
https://goo.gl/maps/QYj2zaZQDwP2
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I was told by a rancher near Santiago, after encountering some remote parallel rock walls on a hike, that the Feds paid the locals to make them as
mitigation to erosion.
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the lines were not there in 2010 (GoogleEarth)
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nandopedal
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| Quote: Originally posted by vandy | | I was told by a rancher near Santiago, after encountering some remote parallel rock walls on a hike, that the Feds paid the locals to make them as
mitigation to erosion. |
I am not a geologist but the slopes that those are on don't look like they need erosion control but maybe?
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nandopedal
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| Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks | | Quote: Originally posted by nandopedal | | Ok, last spring when traveling from San Juanico to San Ignacio Lagoon on the "High road" we spotted a series of parallel lines on a slope made out of
rocks, we did not stop and I almost forgot about it but today I started searching on Goggle earth and bingo! Does anybody knows about them? This are
the GE coordinates: (26.5702547,-112.7391995) |
Are those lines of rocks on a hillside? They almost look like contour lines on a topo map.
https://goo.gl/maps/QYj2zaZQDwP2 |
Yep, it is a slope.
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Or maybe whomever used to roam the desert in Arizona decided to move to the peninsula, check it, (34.7078793,-114.2664121)
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Do you know how hard it is to draw those lines on the hillsides and get them just right?
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Lines in BCS
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Santa Rita lines
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A failed Jojoba farm, according to 'rob' at La Aguja (Playas Pacificas). The Santa Rita lines look like the same.
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Good grief, more lines
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Mega pot farm that was busted a couple of years ago?
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| Quote: Originally posted by David K |
A failed Jojoba farm, according to 'rob' at La Aguja (Playas Pacificas). The Santa Rita lines look like the same. |
Jojoba makes sense ... Jojoba grown by ALIENS maybe
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 Hey Everyone,
I've been reading this forum for a few years now but finally getting around to joining and posting for the first time. I'm really curious about these
rock walls or rock lines, whatever you call them. My wife and I stopped and took a photo of them a few years back when taking the high road to San
Juanico. I see that a previous post mentioned erosion control, but was wondering if that was really why they were made? I'm trying to include the
photo (or link to photo), below, but not sure if this will work or not. Hopefully this helps show what they look like from ground level. The photo
quality is not superb, but if you zoom in you can see the lines extend way up the hill. Seems like it would take a tremendous amount of work to build
these.
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[Edited on 10-7-2021 by Trunkrack]
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Great mystery... Baja has many!
Welcome to Baja Nomad, Trunkrack!!
Reminds me of the mystery walls at Bahía las Animas that stumped Desert Magazine's Choral Pepper and Perry Mason creator, Erle Stanley Gardner! https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/lost_jes...
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Thanks David. Yeah, they are similar except for the fact that the image in your article shows the line/wall going straight down the slope, while
these are across the slope, like contour lines as pointed out above. Sure would be cool to know why all this work was done.
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Walls that have no purpose seem like a government 'make work' project! Las Animas walls are not high enough to direct any animals, they are perfect
for sitting! The lines in your photos are very interesting.
They do look like contour lines.
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I know of about 20 different locations in Baja with either dozer created or hand stacked elevation lines
30° 3'3.59"N, 115° 0'55.55"W
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| Quote: Originally posted by StuckSucks | | Quote: Originally posted by nandopedal | | Ok, last spring when traveling from San Juanico to San Ignacio Lagoon on the "High road" we spotted a series of parallel lines on a slope made out of
rocks, we did not stop and I almost forgot about it but today I started searching on Goggle earth and bingo! Does anybody knows about them? This are
the GE coordinates: (26.5702547,-112.7391995) |
Are those lines of rocks on a hillside? They almost look like contour lines on a topo map.
https://goo.gl/maps/QYj2zaZQDwP2 |
Man made almost certainly. It's just short of San Juan Garcia which at one time was a sizeable agricultural area with a sizable population. Spring
water flows year round.
If you look closely you will notice that where the lines are the earth is bare but where they stop it is all rocky. Therefore the rocks were removed.
The land was cleared and the rocks were piled up into walls, which are the 'lines'.
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