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    Cabo 
    San Lucas lies at the southernmost tip of the 800-mile-long Baja Peninsula. 
    Once a sleepy seaside village, Cabo has grown into a bustling, expensive 
    international resort and one of Mexico's foremost tourist destinations. The 
    town fronts a small harbor facing the rocky peninsula that forms "Land's 
    End." A prominent landmark is the arch rock formation known as El Arco. Just 
    off these rocks, the ocean bottom drops to depths of about 1,200 feet. Along 
    the edge of a deep canyon formed by the San Andreas fault is a unique 
    undersea waterfall; there cascades of sand continuously pour over the edge 
    of the canyon below. This extraordinary phenomenon has only been recorded in 
    Cabo San Lucas. All of San Lucas Bay has been declared an underwater park 
    and a marine sanctuary.
 Because of the clean drinking water from underground springs, the sheltered 
    bay was once an obligatory watering point for pirate vessels and treasure 
    ships from the Orient. Hidden coves around the cape provided ideal hideouts 
    for pirates who preyed on passing galleons. Many of the Pacific's most 
    famous pirates raided and plundered in these waters. An occasional treasure 
    hunter still may chase after rumored treasures and poke around the rocky 
    shores with a dream and a shovel.
 
 In recent years, Cabo San Lucas has become a popular port of call for cruise 
    ships. The Baja Peninsula was briefly a territory of the United States after 
    the Mexican War in 1847; envoys from Washington reported that apart from 
    cacti and rattlesnakes, there was not much else of interest and Baja was 
    returned to Mexico. This desolate area slumbered until the summer of 1939 
    when Cabo was devastated by a hurricane; eventually it was resettled on its 
    present site. Today there are condominiums, hotels, restaurants, gift shops, 
    discos and a marina catering to the many "gringos" who come for the 
    world-famous sportfishing or to find a retirement paradise. Despite the 
    great influx of tourists, there are still areas that remain as unspoiled as 
    they were in the days of explorers and pirates.
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