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Golfo de Santa Clara: Mexico's Coastal Treasure

Juts 146 kilómetros from Puerto Peñasco in Sonora, you will find a small fisher village, we are talking about the Santa Clara Golfo, better known as “Mexico’s Armpit”, as the inhabitants call it with tenderness.

 

In spite of its size, here is where the immense Cortes sea is born. The town is framed by the beaches of golden sand and its dunes, also by its cactus and saguaros. Its weather is warm and nice most of the year.

 

This is a fisher town. In its heyday, its inhabitants used to catch totoaba fish, however, today it is an almost extinct specie.

 


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