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Baja California peninsula

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Its name originated from a mythical island described in a 1510 Spanish romance novel.[1][2] The Baja California peninsula, a lengthy geographical feature, originally belonged to the North American Plate; currently, it is part of the Pacific Plate and travels with it.[3]

Key facts and history

Spanish sea explorers originally believed the Baja peninsula was an island and called it California after the mythical paradise.[2] During the first half of the 17th century the idea of California as an island spread again and persisted well into the 18th century.[4] In the 1510 novel Las Sergas de Esplandián, authored by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, the concept of California first appeared in written form.[1] Francisco de Ulloa, during his 1539 expedition, demonstrated that Baja California was a peninsula, not an island.[2]

A map from 1622, created by Briggs, was the earliest printed one to depict California as an island.[5] A map drawn by the Italian Jesuit Eusebio Kino delivered the decisive refutation of the island theory of California.[6] The East Pacific Rise started to intrude into the edge of the North American Plate roughly 12 to 15 million years ago, which began the peninsula's detachment.[3]

What the cited sources add

The Secretaría de Cultura account states that the Paipai group has about 200 speakers and lives in one locality in Ensenada, Baja California.[7] According to the same article, the state government held a contest in 1954 to find a dress that would represent Baja California women.[8] The winning design, Flor de Cucapá, was created by María de la Cruz Pulido and was inspired by the state's diversity.[8]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Baja California peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Spain's Fantastic Vision and the Mythic Creation of California" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Baja California peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gulf of California", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 30 August 2023 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Baja California peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Alles, "Geology of the Salton Trough" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Baja California peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Jennings, ""For Centuries, Europeans Thought California Was an Island"", Condé Nast Traveler, March 19, 2018; Toley, "The Mapping of America", 1980, p. 110 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Baja California peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Nabergoj, "Vigenjc: Glasilo Kovaškega muzeja v Kropi: Rodbina Kappus pl. Pilchstein", Museums of the Municipality of Radovljica, 2009, p. 29–30; Presidio. Soldados del Rey. Garcia Ruiz, Jorge L. (2023) (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Baja California peninsula" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kino, "Paso por tierra a la California y sus confinantes nuevas Naciones y Misiones nuevas de la Compañía de JHS [Jesús] en la América Septentrional. Descubierto, andado y demarcado por el Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino, j; Hans, "Las Conchas Azules (The Blue Shells): Father Kino, abalones, and the Island of California", The Nautilus, 2010, p. 188–191 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. "Paipai", Secretaría de Cultura/Sistema de Información Cultural. facts only, no text reused. sic.gob.mx
  8. "Flor de Cucapá: esta es la sorprendente historia del traje típico de Baja California", heraldodemexico.com.mx. facts only, no text reused. heraldodemexico.com.mx

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Baja California peninsula (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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Gulf of California, Island of California

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