Everything about Cabo San Lucas totally explained
Cabo San Lucas (popularly known as just 'Cabo') is a small
city at the southern tip of the
Baja California peninsula at, in the
municipality of
Los Cabos in the
state of
Baja California Sur,
Mexico. As of the 2005 census, the population was 56,811 people. It is the largest community in Los Cabos municipality, and the second-largest in
Baja California Sur, after
La Paz.
Cabo San Lucas is quickly becoming a high-end
holiday destination with a number of
resorts and
timeshare clubs appearing along the coast between San Lucas and
San José del Cabo.
History
It is thought that the first humans came to the southern end of the peninsula 14,000 years ago. When the first
Europeans arrived, nomadic groups of
Pericú survived on a subsistence diet based on the gathering of
fruit,
seeds,
roots, and
shellfish, as well as
hunting and
fishing. They lived a
Neolithic lifestyle, without metals.
The Town's Founding
According to
Hatsutaro's narrative contained in the book
Kaigai Ibun, when he arrived to Cabo San Lucas, on May 1842, this place consisted of only two houses and about twenty inhabitants. However, American authors like Henry Edwards and J. Ross Browne claim that Cabo San Lucas' founder was an Englishman named Thomas Ritchie, aka
Old Tom Ritchie. J. Ross Browne says that the Ricthie arrived to Cabo around 1828, while Henry Edwards says that he died around October 1874. On the web check
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At the beginning of the
20th century a fishing village began to develop in that area. In
1917, an
American company built a floating platform to catch
tuna, and ten years later founded the
Compañía de Productos Marinos, S.A., which gave rise to the village.
The Development Rush
The warmth of the waters at Cabo San Lucas, the beauty of its beaches, the abundance of
sport fish, and other qualities, motivated a great number of both foreign and Mexican vacationers to spend their vacations in large-scale tourist developments there, starting from
1974 when the
Mexican government created the
infrastructure to turn Cabo San Lucas into one of the most attractive centers for tourism in Mexico.
Tourism
Cabo San Lucas has become an important vacation and spa destination, with a great variety of sites of interest, and
timeshares that have been built on the coast between San Lucas and
San José del Cabo. The distinctive
El Arco de Cabo San Lucas is a local landmark. Cabo San Lucas has the largest
Marlin tournament in the world. In the winter, pods of whales can be observed in the ocean. They bear their calves in the warm waters there.
Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo are served by
Los Cabos International Airport. The town is also a popular port of call for many
cruise ships. Cabo San Lucas has a small
international airfield, which handles air traffic for general aviation flights and air taxi service.
In
1990, California based Rocker
Sammy Hagar of Van Halen and Montrose fame, opened his own nightclub and restaurant,
The Cabo Wabo Cantina with the three other members of Van Halen. In the mid-nineties he bought out the other owners, his bandmates, and assumed complete ownership of the club. To this day it's one of the most popular attractions in Cabo San Lucas. He is known to play live at the club at least once a year with his band, The Wabos on his birthday, October 13th, and shows often include many famous guests and friends from the music industry.
Other clubs in Cabo include
El Squid Roe, The Zoo,
Gigglin Marlin,
NoWhere Bar,
Tini bar, and
The Jungle Bar.
The Corridor
Cabo San Lucas' raucous party atmosphere and San Jose’s laid-back colonial style are bridged by a golf course-and resort-studded
Tourist Corridor that stretches between the twin towns in 20 miles of pristine white sand beaches and craggy coves.
Exclusive hotels and gated residential communities attracting a wide clientèle of rich and famous weave seamlessly amid this wondrous landscape and comprise this region known as “the Corridor”. Many of these properties, which are considered some of Latin America’s top resorts, have become havens to Hollywood stars,
Fortune 500 C.E.O.s and even the U.S. president during the
2002 Asia-Pacific Economic Conference (APEC). High-end resorts in the Corridor include the One and Only Palmilla, Esperanza and Las Ventanas.
Cabo in popular culture
The stars of the
MTV show take their
spring break here. Small sections of the motion picture
Troy were filmed on some of the beaches near Cabo San Lucas. On April 26, 2007,
Jon Stewart mentioned on his show,
The Daily Show, that he's banned from Cabo San Lucas. Prince mentions Cabo San Lucas in his song Future Baby Mama on his 2007 album entitled Planet Earth.
During the Dog Day Afternoon episode of
Entourage,
Vincent Chase and his friends fly to Cabo.
Celebrities that have vacationed in the Cabo area include
Jessica Simpson,
Jennifer Aniston,
Jessica Alba,
Katherine Heigl and
O. J. Simpson. Professional hockey player
Brett Hull married longtime sweetheart Darcie Schollmeyer in Cabo San Lucas.
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