Cabo San Lucas
Cabo San Lucas, commonly called Cabo in American English, is a city at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Cabo San Lucas together with San José del Cabo is known as Los Cabos.
Cabo has been rated as one of Mexico's top 5 tourist destinations; it is known for its beaches, scuba diving locations, balnearios, the sea arch El Arco de Cabo San Lucas, and marine life. The Los Cabos Corridor has become a heavily trafficked holiday destination for tourists, with numerous resorts and timeshares along the coast between Cabo San Lucas and San José Del Cabo.
Cabo houses a range of wild life including rays, sharks, birds like eagles and a range of fish like mahi-mahi (dorada) and stripe marlin.
El Arco
El Arco de Cabo San Lucas, or Lands End is a distinctive rock formation at the southern tip of Cabo San Lucas, which is itself the extreme southern end of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula.
The arch is locally known as El Arco where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez. This area is widely used in hotel advertisements in the Los Cabos Corridor. This spot is a popular gathering area for sea lions. This location is a great tourist attraction. It is three stories tall and was formed over massive erosion.
The rugged taffy-colored El Arco (The Arch) rock formation erupts from the sea at the tip of the Baja Peninsula. Also known as Land's End, El Arco is a popular tourist attraction and the central focus of countless vacation photos. Viewed from a distance from nearly every vantage point in Cabo San Lucas, the image of El Arco is synonymous with Cabo San Lucas. By the way, it’s called Land’s End because, as the crow flies, if you followed a line south from here, you would not touch land again until you reached the South Pole.
Visits
Visit by boat taxi (some with glass bottoms) from the Cabo San Lucas Marina. View the iconic golden arches from the boat or ask the captain to drop you off and arrange a pick-up time. En route you’ll pass lazy sea lions basking on the rocks.
Open Water Swimming
- Playa del Amour (Lover’s Beach) at the base of the rock formations is a perfect spot for a leisurely stroll, some sunbathing, snorkeling, swimming and a picnic. Note, however that the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez converge at Land's End and swimming is not advised on the Pacific side’s Playa Divorcio (Divorce Beach) due to rough currents.
- It is the finish of the 32 km Los Cabos Open Water Acuarium that starts at Playa el Médano and ends at Playa el Médano Cabo San Lucas.
Pirates
While the Baja Peninsula today is a major migration route for whales, Cabo San Lucas was once an important trade route for Spanish galleons in the 1500s. Pirates would hide behind the protection of El Arco in the calm bay of the Sea of Cortez as they waited for Spanish fleets loaded with gold, spices and other treasures to pass. At the appropriate time they would launch their attack from the towering rock formation of El Arco.
External links
- Jaime Lomelin, Arturo Huante Complete The Los Cabos Open Water Aquarium
- 2020 WOWSA Awards – World Open Water Swimming Man Of The Year Nominees
- Los Cabos Open Water, The Acuarium Swim
- Mariel Hawley Dávila Describes Corazón de Mar Bahía de Banderas On WOWSA Live
- Los Cabo Open Water Acuarium, Done By Mariel Hawley
- Swimming The Rocky Coastlines Of The World
- Swim Near Rocks
- World Open Water Swimming Association
- Open Water Swimming
- Maratón Internacional Acapulco Celebrates 60 Years
- Swim Camp Mexico IV
- Touching, Turtles
- Swim For Lynn Ocean Plunge At Swim Camp Mexico
- National Geographics 21 Best Beaches In The World
- Puerto Los Cabos
- Los Cabos Open Water Acuarium, a New 32 km Ocean Swim]
