The Los Cabos Corridor (''Corredor Turistico'') is a tourist area located at the
Los Cabos Municipality
Los Cabos () is a municipality located at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, in the state of Baja California Sur. It encompasses the two towns of Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo (the municipal seat) linked by a thirty ...
,
Baja California Sur,
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
. It sits on the southern coast of the
Baja California Peninsula, facing the
Gulf of California
The Gulf of California ( es, Golfo de California), also known as the Sea of Cortés (''Mar de Cortés'') or Sea of Cortez, or less commonly as the Vermilion Sea (''Mar Bermejo''), is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja C ...
on the
Transpeninsular Highway between
San José del Cabo
San José del Cabo (, ''Saint Joseph of the Cape'') is a city located in southern Baja California Sur state, Mexico. It is the seat of Los Cabos Municipality lying at a shallow bay northeast of Cabo San Lucas on the Gulf of California. The city ...
and
Cabo San Lucas. It stretches about along the highway and addresses within this area are usually specified in terms of distances from the start of Highway 1. The corridor is a popular tourist destination due to its many
beach resort
A seaside resort is a resort town, town, village, or hotel that serves as a Resort, vacation resort and is located on a coast. Sometimes the concept includes an aspect of official accreditation based on the satisfaction of certain requirements, suc ...
s,
golf courses
A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a tee box, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a cylindrical hole in the ground, known as a "cup". Th ...
, and
sport fishing
Recreational fishing, also called sport fishing or game fishing, is fishing for leisure, exercise or competition. It can be contrasted with commercial fishing, which is professional fishing for profit (economics), profit; or subsistence fishing ...
.
Notable events
*
Hurricane Marty made landfall at San José del Cabo on September 22, 2003.
* The
Sheraton Hacienda del Mar was the host of the 14th annual meeting of
APEC
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC ) is an inter-governmental forum for 21 member economies in the Pacific Rim that promotes free trade throughout the Asia-Pacific region. , held in October 2002.
* Part of the movie ''
Troy
Troy ( el, Τροία and Latin: Troia, Hittite: 𒋫𒊒𒄿𒊭 ''Truwiša'') or Ilion ( el, Ίλιον and Latin: Ilium, Hittite: 𒃾𒇻𒊭 ''Wiluša'') was an ancient city located at Hisarlik in present-day Turkey, south-west of Ç ...
'' (2004) was filmed at Playa El Faro Viejo.
Cabo San Lucas beaches
Lovers' Beach is unusual in that it opens to two seas: the Pacific side is known as "Divorce Beach."
See also
*
List of companies of Mexico
Mexico is a federal republic in the southern half of North America. Mexico has the fifteenth largest nominal GDP and the eleventh largest by purchasing power parity. The Mexican economy is strongly linked to those of its North American Free ...
*
List of hotels in Mexico
This is a list of notable hotels in Mexico.
Hotels in Mexico
* Baja Club (La Paz)
* Be Tulum
* Hotel Terrestre (Oaxaca)
* Paradero Todos Santos
* Coqui Coqui Papholchac (Coba)
* Octavia Casa (Mexico City)
* Casa Silencio (Oaxaca City)
* ...
References
Los Cabos Municipality (Baja California Sur)
Seaside resorts in Mexico
Hotels in Mexico
Beaches of Baja California Sur
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