Category: Cabo San Lucas

Brief History of the Baja California peninsula from Discovery to Today by various authors.

Have you Ever Met a Living Legend?
Author:  Brian Blackburn ask@caboguy.com
Posted with permission of author.
Meet Carlos Ungson, one of Baja’s true pioneers. Many people claim to be famous but not Carlos… however, his life story tells otherwise.

Benjamin Ungson (Carlos’ father) was just 16 years old in 1895 when he travelled across the Pacific Ocean from China to Mexico, a whole new world to him. After living in many areas of Mexico, he finally settled in Mexicali where in 1935, Carlos was born. Benjamin insisted that all his children learn to speak Spanish and their native Chinese dialect as well as English.  article continues https://www.oldcabo.com/have-you-ever-met-a-living-legend/

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BAJA’S 457 YEARS OF SOMNAMBULENT HISTORY
by cwferguson
Reports filed by Fortun Ximénez with Hernán Cortez in 1533 were unbelievable. Ten sailing days north of Bahia de Tecuantepec, located in the south of New Spain, existed an island populated by aborigines tall in stature and dark of complexion. Every paragraph indicated that the new discovery was the lost island described by Garcí Ordóñez de Montalvo in his 1510 best selling novel, Sergas de Esplandían. If so, the land would be rich in gold and pearls and would be ruled by an Amazonian Queen named Califia. Corte’z was excited.
https://cabo-san-lucas.blogspot.mx/2007/12/brief-history-baja-discovery-to-today.html

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Most Famous Map Error in History 1510
Island of California 1510
by cwferguson
The Island of California refers to a long-held European misconception, dating from the 16th century, that California was not part of mainland North America but rather a large island separated from the continent by the Gulf of California.
One of the most famous cartographic errors in history, it was propagated on many maps during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, despite contradictory evidence from various explorers. The legend was initially infused with the idea that California was a terrestrial paradise, like the Garden of Eden or Atlantis.
https://cabo-san-lucas.blogspot.mx/2007/12/most-famous-map-error-in-history-1510.html

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Cabo San Lucas Past and Present
by cwferguson
Stories, History, and Tales about the area. It’s changing dynamics from a sleepy fishing village to a high class tourist destination in Baja California.
https://cabo-san-lucas.blogspot.mx/

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