Gulf of California
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English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]- a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland
- Synonym: Sea of Cortez
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:
- On the California side a vast desert stretches westward, past the head of the Gulf of California, nearly to the shore of the Pacific.
Translations
[edit]body of water
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