San José del Cabo

San José del Cabo is a coastal city located on the Gulf of California coast, near the southern tip of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. San José del Cabo is situated on the edge of a shallow bay, some northeast of Cabo San Lucas, a city with which it shares the title of Los Cabos.
San José del Cabo is the seat of the Los Cabos Municipality. The city had a population of 136,285 at the 2020 census. The two cities are served by Los Cabos International Airport.

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People and history

The 2020 census found that, at the time, 136,285 people lived in the city. Together with neighboring Cabo San Lucas, it forms a major tourist hub, with over 900,000 hotel guests in 2011.
The indigenous Pericu name for San Jose del Cabo was Añiñi. The Misión Estero de las Palmas de San José del Cabo Añuití was founded in 1730 on the west bank of the nearby Río San José, which flows into the largest body of freshwater in Baja California Sur, an estuary, after flowing largely subterraneanly for from its origin in the Sierra de la Laguna. For centuries, the river has provided a source of freshwater for the locals and animals of this coastal desert known today as San José del Cabo; it was once used as a source of freshwater for Spanish galleons traveling back from the Philippines. The river once flowed above-ground until the beginning of the 20th century, due to anthropogenic causes. A one-kilometer long sandbar separates the estuary from what early Spanish explorers, including Sebastián Vizcaíno, called the Bahía de San Bernabé, now known as Bahía de San José del Cabo.
San José del Cabo is one of two places where the critically endangered rice rat Oryzomys peninsulae has survived.

Geography

Climate

San José del Cabo, like almost all of the Baja California peninsula, has a tropical desert climate. The area, however, does receive slightly more rainfall than most areas further north, mainly due to tropical cyclones occasionally approaching from the south. These storms can bring very heavy precipitation events, such as the roughly on 1 September 1998, or the on 3 November 1993. Overall, rainfall events here are some of the most spontaneous anywhere in the world due to the cyclone influence, and many years can pass without significant rain, at all.
The sea experiences lows of in winter, and highs of during the summer months.

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
73 °F 23 °C	72 °F 22 °C	72 °F 22 °C	72 °F 22 °C	73 °F 23 °C	77 °F 25 °C	81 °F 27 °C	84 °F 29 °C	84 °F 29 °C	84 °F 29 °C	81 °F 27 °C	77 °F 25 °C

Demographics

Many people from around the world live here, mostly from the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, China, Korea, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and other Latin American countries, among others. Some 80% of the population, however, are originally from other parts of Latin America thus enabling one to hear and experience several dialects of Spanish being spoken.