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Photo of the Week
by Ralph Lee Hopkins
Photo: Baja sunrise
Baja still-life: Sunrise paints the Valle de los Cirios along the highway to Bahía de Los Ángeles. Into the Edenic world of Baja is now stepping the full force of coastal development. The tread is heavy at Baja's tip, known collectively as "Cabo." More conscientious but problematic is tourist and residential building outside the lovely former colonial outpost of Loreto, up the east coast. And farther up yet lies the beautiful, undiscovered gem of astonishing biological fecundity, Bahía de Los Ángeles, where development is still mostly rumor.
 
Read more in "Is Baja on the Block?"


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