San José del Cabo facts for kids
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San José del Cabo
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    .jpg) Top: San José del Cabo coastline; Middle: Los Cabos Town Hall, San José del Cabo main plaza; San José Estuary, Misión Estero de las Palmas de San José del Cabo Añuití
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 San José del Cabo
Location in Baja California Sur
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| Country | Mexico |
| State | Baja California Sur |
| Municipality | Los Cabos |
| Area | |
| • City | 176.5 km2 (68.16 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 45 m (148 ft) |
| Population
(2020)
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| • City | 136,285 |
| • Density | 772.01/km2 (1,999.49/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 351,111 |
| Time zone | UTC−7 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−6 (MDT) |
San José del Cabo (Spanish pronunciation: [san xo'se ðel 'kaβo], Saint Joseph of the Cape) is a city located in southern Baja California Sur state, Mexico. It is the seat of Los Cabos Municipality lying at a shallow bay 32 kilometres (20 mi) northeast of Cabo San Lucas on the Gulf of California. The city has a population of 136,285 as of the 2020 Census. San José del Cabo together with Cabo San Lucas are known as Los Cabos. Together they form a metropolitan area of 351,111 inhabitants.
The two cities are served by Los Cabos International Airport.
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Population
In the 2015 census, it had a population of 93,069. Together with neighboring Cabo San Lucas, it forms a major tourist destination for travelers, with over 900,000 hotel guests in 2011.
The Mission San José del Cabo was founded in 1730 on the west bank of the nearby Río San José. The Río San José flows into an estuary, the largest body of fresh water in southern Baja California Sur, after flowing largely underground for 39.1 kilometres (24.3 mi) from its origin in the Sierra de la Laguna (Laguna Mountains). For more than 250 years it has furnished drinking and irrigation water for the town of San Jose del Cabo, beginning as a source of fresh water for Spanish galleons traveling back from the Philippines. The river used to flow above ground until the beginning of the 20th century due to anthropogenic causes. A one km long sand bar separates the estuary from what early Spanish explorers, including Sebastian Vizcaino, called the Bahía de San Bernabé or Bay of San Bernabé and now San José del Cabo Bay.
San José del Cabo is one of two places where the rare and nearly extinct rice rat Oryzomys peninsulae has been found.
Geography
Climate
San José del Cabo, like almost all of the Baja California peninsula, has a tropical desert climate (Köppen BWh), although it does receive more rainfall than most areas further north due to tropical cyclones occasionally coming in from the south and bringing very heavy falls such as 340 millimetres (13.4 in) on the first of September 1998 and 316 millimetres (12.4 in) on 3 November 1993. Overall, however, rainfall is some of the most erratic anywhere in the world due to this influence, and many years pass by without significant rainfalls at all.
The sea experiences lows of 72–73 °F (22–23 °C) in winter, and highs of 77–84 °F (25–29 °C) 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 |
| Climate data for San José del Cabo | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 37.0 (98.6) |
38.0 (100.4) |
39.0 (102.2) |
39.0 (102.2) |
40.0 (104.0) |
38.0 (100.4) |
39.0 (102.2) |
42.0 (107.6) |
42.0 (107.6) |
41.0 (105.8) |
40.0 (104.0) |
39.0 (102.2) |
42.0 (107.6) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 25.8 (78.4) |
26.4 (79.5) |
27.4 (81.3) |
29.1 (84.4) |
30.9 (87.6) |
32.6 (90.7) |
33.8 (92.8) |
33.9 (93.0) |
33.4 (92.1) |
32.3 (90.1) |
30.1 (86.2) |
26.9 (80.4) |
30.2 (86.4) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 18.9 (66.0) |
19.2 (66.6) |
20.1 (68.2) |
21.9 (71.4) |
24.0 (75.2) |
26.5 (79.7) |
28.5 (83.3) |
28.9 (84.0) |
28.2 (82.8) |
26.2 (79.2) |
23.2 (73.8) |
20.2 (68.4) |
23.8 (74.8) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 12.0 (53.6) |
12.0 (53.6) |
12.8 (55.0) |
14.8 (58.6) |
17.1 (62.8) |
20.5 (68.9) |
23.3 (73.9) |
23.8 (74.8) |
23.0 (73.4) |
20.1 (68.2) |
16.3 (61.3) |
13.4 (56.1) |
17.4 (63.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 1.5 (34.7) |
2.0 (35.6) |
5.0 (41.0) |
6.0 (42.8) |
9.0 (48.2) |
11.0 (51.8) |
11.5 (52.7) |
11.0 (51.8) |
11.0 (51.8) |
11.0 (51.8) |
9.2 (48.6) |
3.0 (37.4) |
1.5 (34.7) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 13.1 (0.52) |
5.3 (0.21) |
1.3 (0.05) |
1.0 (0.04) |
0.3 (0.01) |
0.9 (0.04) |
20.5 (0.81) |
53.6 (2.11) |
112.5 (4.43) |
42.9 (1.69) |
25.2 (0.99) |
11.4 (0.45) |
288.0 (11.34) |
| Average rainy days | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 14.6 |
| Source: Servicio Meteorológico National | |||||||||||||
Demographics
| Historical population | ||
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1990 | 13,302 | — |
| 1995 | 21,737 | +63.4% |
| 2000 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2010 | 69,788 | — |
| 2015 | 93,069 | +33.4% |
Many people from around the world live here, mostly from the United States of America, New Zealand, Australia, China, Korea, Japan, Latin America, Europe and others. 80% of the population is from other parts of Mexico or countries, so it is possible to try many different things here.
See also
In Spanish: San José del Cabo para niños
- Battle of San José del Cabo
- Siege of San José del Cabo
- Los Cabos Municipality
- Misión Estero de las Palmas de San José del Cabo Añuití
