Baja Malibu is a beach and resort in
Tijuana Municipality
Tijuana Municipality is a municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California. Its municipal seat is located in the city of Tijuana. According to the 2020 census, the municipality had a population of 1,922,523. Luis Arturo González Cruz of the ...
,
Baja California
Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...
named after the beach town
Malibu of
Los Angeles
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County
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. The beach is a popular tourist area in the
San Diego–Tijuana
San Diego–Tijuana is an international transborder agglomeration, straddling the border of the adjacent North American coastal cities of San Diego, California, United States and Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. The 2012 population of the reg ...
metropolitan region and draws surfers from all over
Southern California
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.
Recreation
There are many resorts and luxury hotels & condominiums lining the beach at Baja Malibu. At the entrance of Baja Malibu is the BM Surf Bar
which offers food, drink, pool, sports viewing and live music. The bar also offers paid parking for surfers.
Waves
The waves at BM are of the beach-break variety and break from the right and left.
The bottom at BM is sandy and the waves at the beach are very consistent.
The waves are very fast, powerful, and recommended for intermediate to expert
surfers
Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitabl ...
.
Even though Baja Malibu is on the
Gold Coast of Baja California, and therefore south of the
South Coast South Coast is a name often given to coastal areas to the south of a geographical region or major metropolitan area.
Geographical
Australia
*South Coast (New South Wales), the coast of New South Wales, Australia, south of Sydney
* South Coast (Q ...
Beaches of Southern California, the water is on average colder than the northern beaches.
See also
*
Playas de Tijuana
Playas de Tijuana (Spanish for "beaches of Tijuana") is the westernmost borough of the municipality of Tijuana, Baja California, stretching from the United States border in the north to Rosarito Beach Municipality in the south. The Bullring by t ...
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Baja Mar
Baja Mar (or Bajamar) is a seaside resort community twenty minutes north of Ensenada and forty minutes south of Greater San Diego–Tijuana in Ensenada Municipality, Baja California, Mexico. The resort community is located just south of another g ...
References
External links
Baja Malibu
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Seaside resorts in Baja California
Tourist attractions in Baja California