The Sierra de San Francisco is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

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of the northern region of Baja California Sur state, in northwestern

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Geography

The Sierra de San Francisco are on the eastern side of the Baja California Peninsula, north of the town of San Ignacio, They are part of the Peninsular Ranges system, which extends from

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to the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula. Baja California Sur

;History Within the mountains are the prehistoric rock art

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of the

Cochimí people The Cochimí were the indigenous inhabitants of the central part of the Baja California peninsula, from El Rosario in the north to San Javier in the south. Information on Cochimí customs and beliefs has been preserved in the brief observati ...

, also known as the

Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco The Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco are prehistoric rock art pictographs found in the Sierra de San Francisco mountain range in Mulegé Municipality of the northern region of Baja California Sur state, in Mexico. History The pictograp ...

. ;Natural history The Sierra de San Francisco are within the

El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve The El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve, created in 1988, is located in Mulegé Municipality in northern Baja California Sur, at the center of the Baja California Peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California. With an area of over ), ...

. The

vegetation Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide. It is a general term, without specific reference to particular taxa, life forms, structure, spatial extent, or any other specific botanical or geographic characte ...

found in the Sierra de San Francisco range is of the

Baja California Desert The Baja California Desert ( es, Desierto de Baja California) is a desert ecoregion of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula. This ecoregion occupies the western portion of the Baja California peninsula, and occupies most of the Mexican states of B ...

ecoregion. A notable tree here is the Elephant tree (''Bursera microphylla'').C. Michael Hogan. 2009

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* C. Michael Hogan. 2009
''Elephant Tree: Bursera microphylla'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg
* Ken Hedges and James E. Workman. 1983. ''Rock art papers'', Volume 1, Page 5, San Diego Museum of Man, 98 pages

External links

Unesco: Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco World Heritage Site

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

Peninsular Ranges Mulegé Municipality {{BajaCaliforniaSur-geo-stub

Geography

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