Isla Tortuga

Isla Tortuga is a little Mexican island of volcanic origin in the Gulf of California 40 km off the coast of Baja California.

The island is a 210 m high shield volcano with a 1 km wide and 100 m deep caldera that was formed in the Holocene on the East Pacific Rise geologically short time ago. The time of the last eruption is unknown. The island is 4.7 km long and up to 3.3 km wide, with an area of ​​11.374 km ².

Since 2005, the island belongs with 243 others in the Gulf of California, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The next town on the coast is the old mining town of Santa Rosalía, administrative seat of the municipios Mulege.