Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Baja California Sur
Detourmap lists 26 places in Baja California Sur, Mexico, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve. 18 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 26
- Oldest
- El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve 1988
- Little known
- 18 of 26
- Share of Mexico
- 8%
Baja California Sur 26
All 26, best known first.
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2.Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco
Archaeological · Notable
Prehistoric rock art pictographs in Mexico
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3.Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California
Nature · Notable
World Heritage site in Mexico
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15.Isla San Francisco
Nature · Hidden gem
Island in the Gulf of California off the coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico
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23.El Boleo
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Copper-cobalt-zinc-manganese deposit in Baja California Sur, Mexico
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Baja California Sur?
El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve, 20th century. Biosphere reserve. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Baja California Sur?
26: 24 nature & landscapes and 2 archaeological & historic sites. 18 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Baja California Sur?
El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve, dated to 1988. 2 of the 26 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Baja California Sur here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Baja California Sur if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Baja California Sur is a first-level division of Mexico, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.