Gulf of California
Speech parts
1. Gulf of California - Noun
2. Gulf of California - Proper noun
Meaning
a gulf to the west of the mainland of Mexico
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Examples
Also in 1857, the U.S. War Department asked Lieutenant Joseph Ives to lead an expedition to assess the feasibility of an up-river navigation from the Gulf of California.
Alarcón sailed to the head of the Gulf of California and completed the explorations begun by the Spanish explorer Francisco de Ulloa the preceding year.
A map drawn by one of Alarcón's pilots is the earliest accurately detailed representation of the Gulf of California and the lower course of the Colorado River.
Only 500 to 1,000 turtles usually hatch on Playa Mancha Blanca in the Gulf of California in Desemboque, Pitiquito, but 2,289 have already been released into the sea so far this year and the two-week long hatching season still has five days to go.
Other parts of the globe that also saw repeated incidents include India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, northwestern Australia and parts of the Red Sea and the Gulf of California in Mexico.
Motion along this fault in the past pulled Baja California away from the coast, creating the Gulf of California.