Two parts of California are Baja (Spanish) California and Lower (English) California that make up the peninsula. The peninsula is about 800 miles long, ranking third as one of the longest peninsula. Baja California is located n the north and Baja California Sur in the South. The country is a national leading producer of cotton and wheat. The main industry of the country is tourism. Hunting and deep sea fishing are a famous hobby. The waters have offered many opportunities to study marine life
places around the world, killing over “3.5 million people” on average during the past two millennia (Marshak 218). Earthquakes have impacted many areas in the United States, especially along the western coast in states like Alaska, Hawaii, and California. California is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes because it is located on the famous San Andreas Fault in the very seismically active Ring of Fire. Earthquake hazards are also prominent in many other regions across the United States including the
lagoons. Researchers have found 17 different fish species in their stomachs that were classified as demersal and/or benthic species. These fish species are found known to have a habitat in relatively shallow water near the upper portion of the Gulf of California which assisted the Vaquita’s with having a stable diet. According to Researchers, the Vaquita have also been found to be non-selective feeders on small fish and squid in this area. Some of their most common prey has included teleosts fish such
Jalisco Nueva Generacion, a new player from central Mexico that has quickly expanded its influence.” Per CNN, since the year 2014 several more Major Mexican drug cartels have risen “Beltran Leyva Organization (split from Sinaloa), Los Zetas (split from Gulf Cartel), Knights Templar Cartel (split from Familia Michoacana) and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel”(“A short history of Mexican drug
choose for the assignment is Poseidon, the main factor that I choose him is based on the geographical environment. California is located in the seismic zone, and bay area is surrounded by the sea. According to the Greek myth, “Poseidon is the god of sea, earthquake” (Theoi Greek Mythology 1). Placing the temple of Poseidon in the Bay Area hopes it can keep the earthquake away from California. For the location of the temple, I compare the location and landscape of Fort Funston with the Strawberry Hill
INTRODUCTION. Recognized as one of the most fearless and violent cartels in all of Mexico, Los Zetas was brought forth by a need for personal security in the Gulf Cartel. This former hit man/security style operation, active since 1997, has since grown into its own ruthless and violent organization becoming the second most powerful cartel and easily the most feared in all of Mexico. Heavily trained and armed, members of Los Zetas are set apart from other cartels because of the level of brutality
The Issue of Expansion and the Widening of the Gulf Between North and South In 1819 there were 22 states, 11 slave states and 11 anti-slave states. This is a balance, and so there was no area of disagreement between the north and the south. There were still many territories in America, this was the name given to an area of land before it became a state. This was the area which caused a great deal of disagreement between the north and the south as it had to be decided if theses territories
Canada, and South America. With the shift overseas, the pipeline industry began to construct major systems from the U.S. Gulf Coast and Western Canada to states in the Midwest, as well as from California to other West Coast states. In 1968, Americans were continuing to migrate to the west coast and the pipeline industry followed. The increase of import refineries on the Gulf Coast also led to the construction of pipelines that would stretch across the eastern seaboard. 1968 also saw the discovery
1. Resonance is the reason that the shape of the coastline affects the tides. What Resonance does is it changes the normal tide oscillations. When it does this it affects the way of the tides and how they form. This is not a minor affect either the way the coastline is shaped can lead to quite large tide changes. There are three major types of tides the first is Diurnal Tides: This tide is your standard single high and a single low tide which occurs each day. They usually occur in various areas when
not far from the Grand Canyon. It is hard to believe that the dam was built in the 1930s considering there wasn’t the technology or tools that we have now. Initially, the government wanted to build the dam in order to supply electrical power to California. In 1921, Herbert Hoover who was the Secretary of Commerce at time first proposed building a dam on the Colorado River. In 1928, Congress then authorized the dam to be built. In the 1930’s there were not many jobs due to the Depression and most
takes place in La Paz, Mexico in the year of 1947. It also takes place around the Gulf of Mexico in the same year. The Gulf of Mexico is important to this book because that is where Kino found the pearl of the world. The pearl is perfect as a moon, captured light and refined as it gave back in its incandescence. It was large as a seagull’s egg. La Paz, Mexico is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur and an important regional commercial center. Next, is the plot of The Pearl
career. From 1979 through 1986, Earle was the Curator of Phycology at the California Academy of Sciences and a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley during 1969 to 1981. Her Journey continued within education as
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (Procuraduria General de la Republica, PGR) had issued information related to the conformation of the seven principal drug cartels present at Mexico: Tijuana Cartel / Arellano Felix Organization The eleven Arellano Felix brothers were part of a middle-class family, five of them engage in smuggling clothing and electronics before entering the drug trade. Their uncle Felix Gallardo was no stranger to criminal activity, since being the top leader of the Tijuana
recently, the snowpack is higher than the average for this time of the year. This is a milestone for California, who has been in a severe drought for the past year. The storms have increased the snowpack levels of the mountain that hasn’t been seen in two years in California. Although the announcement of this seems horrible to some, it is welcoming news to California due to the dry conditions California has been in for the past four years. However, even with the higher levels of snow the drought is
founded in the 1970’s and its power and money grew in the 1980’s, because of the shipment of cocaine by the Columbians through Mexico. The Sinaloa Cartel’s dominant areas of operation are in Northwest Mexico and Southern California including: Sinaloa; Durango; Chihuahua; Baja California; Sonora; Tamaulipas; Nuevo León; Michoacán; and Guerrero. The Sinaloa Cartel’s goal is to move more and more cocaine, heroin, and marijuana to American consumers. The Beltran Leyva Cartel was founded by the four Beltran
living in the ocean at the surface and on the bottom. (Gulf Oil Spills Effects on Wildlife)
Ramon, California. Chevron Corporation can be dated to 1870 when it was known as the Pacific Oil Coast Company. Following successive mergers with various oil firms, they finally changed their name in 1911 to Standard Oil Company. Due to the U.S. Supreme Court ordering the Pacific Oil Coast Company (POCC) to be liberated into various oil companies because it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act (New York Times). Later on name they would change their name to Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal)
intriguing, including its diversity and health, physiology, behaviour, and ecological challenges it faces. Spotted eagle rays are found throughout tropical warm waters in: the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, Eastern Atlantic, Red Sea, South Africa, Hawaii, north of Japan, south of Australia, Eastern Pacific, Gulf of California, Peru, and the Galapagos Islands. (3) These creatures have been known to inhabit waters as far north
The Louisiana purchase from France in 1803 for fifteen million dollars. The land was roughly around 828,000,000 square miles! The Louisiana Territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to the Canadian border in the north. It doubled the size of the united states and it was considered the largest land sale in history.
of Vietnam which was supported by the United States. On August 2nd, 1964 the USS Maddox was on a secret intelligent mission on the North Vietnamese coast where in the Gulf on Tonkin they were attacked by torpedo boats. The USS Turner Joy was attacked in the same area two days later. Due to the second attack Congress declared the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which led to air strikes.In 1959 there were 5,000 guerilla fighters and in 1964 the numbers jumped to 100,000. At Pleiku on March, 1965 U.S Marine