2009 September | Todos Santos

Sep

Hacienda Cerritos Jimena impressions

Todos Santos, like most places around the cape and along the west coast of southern Baja, expected the worst and got off easy. Very little damage is reported. Many businesses are closed for the day, very little public observed on the streets. We had an acquaintance drive past Todos Santos enroute to La Paz and this is all we can state until we start a loop visiting all areas from the East Cape to La Paz. ...

Sep

Baja California Sur

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Jimena is expected to make landfall

Hurricane Jimena has grown into an extremely dangerous storm swirling toward Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, scaring off tourists and forcing authorities to evacuate thousands of reluctant, impoverished residents of shanty towns to temporary shelters. Police, firefighters and military personnel drove through shantytowns, trying to persuade some 10,000 people to evacuate shacks made of plastic sheeting,...

about todos santos

Todos Santos is situated 50 miles south of La Paz and 46 miles north of Cabo San Lucas at the foothills of the Sierra de la Laguna. The town looks to the Pacific Ocean among the greens of the rich farm crops, the palm groves, the mango and avocado trees and the canebrakes of the Valle del Pilar. Todos Santos was established as the site of the mission of Nuestra Senora del Pilar de La Paz, by father Jaime Bravo in 1723. It reached the status of mission with the name of Santa Rosa de Todos Santos, in honor of its benefactor, dona Rosa de la Pena.