San Marcos, Baja California Sur

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Isla San Marcos is a Mexican island in the Gulf of California. Administratively it belongs to the municipality ( municipio ) Mulege of the State of Baja California Sur ( " South Lower California ").

Geography

Isla San Marcos is located 25 kilometers southeast of Santa Rosalía, the main town of the municipality on the Baja California peninsula; the southern tip of the island is even only 4.5 km from the coast of the peninsula. It is after about 30 km to the northeast island of Tortuga the second most northern island this state in the Gulf of California. The arid and mountainous island in north-south direction 8 km long in east-west direction up to 4 km wide and has an area of 28.75 km ². There is a mining settlement of the same name on the south west coast; it lies in a region where a large area of plaster of Compañía Mexicana SA de CV Occidental ( COMSA ) is degraded. The settlement also includes a 366 m long, t -shaped pier to the shipping of the gypsum, as well as a privately operated by the mining company airfield at the Bahía Puerto Viejo. With 425 permanent inhabitants (as of 2005) San Marcos is the only permanently inhabited island in the Gulf of California.