Guerrero Negro

Guerrero Negro is the largest town located in the municipality of Mulegé in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur (BCS). It had a population of 13,054 in the 2010 census. Guerrero Negro is served by Guerrero Negro Airport. The town has a celebration each year to hail the annual arrival of the gray whale to calve in the lagoons of BCS. This festival occurs during the first half of February. Another town in BCS, the port of San Blas, has a similar festival on February 24 and 25. Guerrero Negro was born in 1957 when Daniel Ludwig--who also constructed the hotel Acapulco Princess in the port of Acapulco, Guerrero--built a salt works there to supply the demand of salt in the western United States. The salt mine was established around the...