Santa Anita is a village in
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, western
Mexico
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. It is located north of
San Jose del Cabo on the right bank of the
Arroyo San José along
Federal Highway 1. It had a population of 687 inhabitants in the 2010 census, and is situated at an elevation of 76 meters (249 ft.) above sea level.
In 1968, it was described as a "little farming village". It is the
type locality of the rice rat ''
Oryzomys peninsulae'', now possibly extinct.
[Carleton and Arroyo-Cabrales, 2009, pp. 114–115]
History
During the
Mexican American War
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, on February 15, 1847, a council meeting at Santa Anita, after the flag of the United States was raised over
San Jose del Cabo by forces of the
U. S. Navy, declared Governor
Francisco Palacios Miranda a traitor and named
Maurico Castro Cota, of San Jose del Cabo, as his successor. Castro then attempted to raise the first company of volunteers to resist the Americans.
References
Literature cited
*Carleton, M.D. and Arroyo-Cabrales, J. 2009
Review of the ''Oryzomys couesi'' complex (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) in Western Mexico Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 331:94–127.
*Weber, F.J. 1968
The missions & missionaries of Baja California: an historical perspective Baja California travels series, vol. 11. Dawson's Book Shop, 92 pp.
Populated places in Baja California Sur
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