Golfo de California, Baja California Sur (21095853975)

is a semi-arid island in 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 Ca ...

, off the east coast of the Baja California peninsula. Located some north of the city of

La Paz La Paz (), officially known as Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Spanish pronunciation: ), is the seat of government of the Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia. With an estimated 816,044 residents as of 2020, La Paz is the List of Bolivian cities ...

, it belongs politically to the

Mexican state The states of Mexico are first-level administrative territorial entities of the country of Mexico, which is officially named Mexico, United Mexican States. There are 32 federal entities in Mexico (31 states and the capital, Mexico City, as a sepa ...

Baja California Sur Baja California Sur (; 'South Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur), is the least populated state and the 31st admitted state of the 32 federal ent ...

and is part of the Municipality of La Paz. Its surface area is 182.962 km² (70.642 sq mi), the sixth-largest island in Mexico. The island is also referred to as San José Island in English, though there are other islands by this name. It is the type locality for the

yellow-footed gull The yellow-footed gull (''Larus livens'') is a large gull, closely related to the western gull and thought to be a subspecies until the 1960s. It is endemic to the Gulf of California. Description Adults are similar in appearance to the western g ...

and the

San José brush rabbit The San José brush rabbit (''Sylvilagus bachmani mansuetus'') is a critically endangered subspecies of the brush rabbit, in the family Leporidae. Taxonomy It was formerly thought to be its own species, but more recent studies indicate that i ...

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Land areas of islands in Mexico

INEGI The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI by its name in es, Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática) is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Stat ...

Islands of Baja California Sur Islands of the Gulf of California {{BajaCaliforniaSur-geo-stub