Guerrero Negro
Guerrero Negro on the map of Baja California Sur
Guerrero Negro ( Spanish for " black warrior " ) is a Mexican city with about 13,000 inhabitants ( census 2010) in the state of Baja California Sur, about two kilometers south of the border to Baja California right along the Mexican Federal Highway 1
Guerrero Negro belongs administratively to the municipality the biggest city in Mulege.
Striking about the city is that the center (Centro) entirely in the southwest of the Town ( Nuevo Guerrero Negro) is the predominantly mutually perpendicular streets. Transport Calms the highway 1 runs along the eastern edge of town and the main feeder to the center forms the southern edge of Neustadt. North of the center and west of the Town is a football stadium.
Geography
Guerrero Negro is about nine meters above sea level in the northern foothills of the Vizcaíno Desert and adjacent to the Reserve of the Biosphere Reserve El Vizcaíno the Pacific Bahia de Sebastián Vizcaíno, since 1993 a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Name
Guerrero Negro - Spanish for " black warrior " - is derived vo an American whaling ship from Boston called Black Warrior from which ran aground in 1858 fully loaded here in Guerrero Negro.
Traffic
Airport: To transport connections faster access a public airport was next to the highway 1 about six kilometers north of the city built with 2.2 km paved runway. The IATA code is GUB.
Tourism
Between January and March, particularly large number of tourists to watch in the south-west to Laguna Ojo de Liebre ( " eye of the rabbit" ) the gray whales that come to calve. Each in the first half of February, the great feast of annual Grauwalankunft is celebrated in the city. Whale Watching instead of whaling is now the motto.
Other attractions include the estuary and the marshes, where more than 200 different species of birds live, the caves in the Sierra de San Francisquito, over 300 prehistoric petroglyphs and the islands and bays near Guerrero Negro, and finally the salt extraction with the giant white sea salt production basins.
Industry
Sea salt production: With around seven million tons of annual production, these saline ( a joint stock company ) is the world's largest. It was 1957 - the same time led to the emergence of the city of Guerrero Negro - by the Americans Daniel K. Ludwig ( number 1 in the first Forbes list of 400 richest Americans in 1982 ) founded on the banks of Laguna Ojo de Liebre and offers now working for over a thousand people. Since 1973 it is 51 % of the Mexican state, and the remaining 49 % is held by Mitsubishi.