Baja California Sur · Mexico
Magdalena Bay
A gray whale nursery on Baja's Pacific coast.
- Puerto San Carlos
- 5,742 (2020)
- Great White Fleet
- 1908
Then
- 1900–1910
The US Navy uses the bay as a gunnery range with Mexico's permission.
- 1908
The Great White Fleet holds two weeks of gunnery practice here.
- 1960s
A port and cannery are built at Puerto San Carlos.
Now
Gray whales calve here each winter, and whale watching has become a mainstay. The tide station is at Puerto San Carlos.