Sun kissed many Americans are heading for Loreto Bay, a resort community that’s planning a total of 6,000 residences in the desert of Baja California. The 8,000 acres of the Loreto Bay Resort on Baja California snuggle on flat, hard desert between the charismatically craggy Giganta range and the spookily glassy Sea of Cortez. The most basic elements of nature — sun and water, rock and sand, the vertical and the horizontal — collide with that particular grace that only nature can produce. From a footbridge that gently arcs over a deep green estuary leading from the bay into the development, there’s a good view of the resort taking shape on this once-isolated spot: a 150-room hotel with a beachside cafe and gardens; 240 two-story adobe houses with cupolas; some homes painted bright blue or yellow, others muted pink and beige or green; another 300 houses and condos in varying stages of construction. Read more here…

This report is not verified, we got the information from an English published free pamphlet you can find at many places foreigners frequent. According to that source FONATUR, the agency that developed Loreto, The Cabo San Lucas Marina, San Jose del Cabo and three other tourist resorts in Mexico, has put on the auction block about 11000 acres, including six miles of beach front in the Puerto Escondido area, about 10 minutes south of Loreto. The new development has been named "Golden Beach" and will be divided into three large areas. One for hotels, commercial centers and residences, a second one to develop an upper-middle class neighborhood much like they did in San Jose. Details for the development of the third area were not announced yet but the word is it will be some kind of an ecological project.

The Baja California peninsula extends 1,100 km from the U.S. border to the southern tip. Its widest point is approx. 230 km. Most of it is separated from mainland Mexico by the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California). It has a long, varied coastline on both sides.The Baja features four major mountain ranges: Sierra Juarez, Sierra de San Pedro Martir, Sierra de la Giganta, Sierra de la Laguna, and many minor ranges. Much of Baja California is desert or mountains. In the north we have the border cities of Tijauana, Tecate, and Mexicali. These border cities offer a wide variety of shopping opportunities and are therefore often frequented by day visitors from the USA. The southern half of the Baja Peninsula has the capital of La Paz, which many people believe is the most "Mexican" of the Baja cities. Other larger communities in the southern Baja like Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo have a more resort-town feeling to them and are more driven by the developing tourism industry. Todos Santos and Loreto are on the rise in that matter and are being developed to suit the need of tourists mainly from north of the border. Yet Europeans are discovering more of the Baja California and the many options for recreational activities it has to offer. Eco tourism, scuba diving, sport fishing are some of the "classic" options the Baja has to offer. Yet, over the course of the past few years golfing, in connection with upmarket developments in Los Cabos and La Paz, is becoming also a reason for many visitors.