San José del Cabo (, ''

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of the Cape'') is a city located in southern

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state,

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. It is the seat of

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 ...

lying at a shallow bay northeast of

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on the

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. The city has a population of 136,285 as of the 2020 Census.2020 Census of Mexico. San José del Cabo together with

are known as

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. Together they form a metropolitan area of 351,111 inhabitants.2020 Census of Mexico. The two cities are served by

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Population

In the 2015 census, it had a population of 93,069. Together with neighboring

, it forms a major tourist destination for travelers, with over 900,000 hotel guests in 2011. The Mission San José del Cabo was founded in 1730 on the west bank of the nearby

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. The Río San José flows into an estuary, the largest body of fresh water in southern Baja California Sur, after flowing largely underground for from its origin in the

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(Laguna Mountains). For more than 250 years it has furnished drinking and irrigation water for the town of San Jose del Cabo, beginning as a source of fresh water for Spanish

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s traveling back from the

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. The river used to flow above ground until the beginning of the 20th century due to anthropogenic causes. A one km long sand bar separates the estuary from what early Spanish explorers, including Sebastian Vizcaino, called the Bahía de San Bernabé or Bay of San Bernabé and now San José del Cabo Bay. San José del Cabo is one of two places where the rare and nearly extinct

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'' Oryzomys peninsulae'' has been found.

Climate

San José del Cabo, like almost all of the Baja California peninsula, has a tropical desert climate (

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''BWh''), although it does receive more rainfall than most areas further north due to

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s occasionally coming in from the south and bringing very heavy falls such as on the first of September 1998 and on 3 November 1993. Overall, however, rainfall is some of the most erratic anywhere in the world due to this influence, and many years pass by without significant rainfalls at all. The sea experiences lows of in winter, and highs of during the summer months.

Demographics

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