La Paz News

Hurricane Jimena has lost more of its muscle, dropping to a Category 1 storm with 90 mph (145 kph) top winds off Baja California. La Paz get off easy as Hurricane Jimena moves north. Government offices and schools remain closed until tomorrow. There has been no reporting of excessive flooding or other hurricane related incidents across a wide spectrum of friends, acquaintance and businesses contacted this morning. There is a report on an arroyo north by Santa Rita that the carretera #1 is flooded. continue

Jimena weakens a little more but remains at category four strength. At 8 a.m. today, the center of Hurricane Jimena, with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph, was 140 miles south-southwest of Cabo San Lucas and churning toward the Baja California peninsula at about 12 mph. The accompanying image was captured just after 8 a.m. from the area of the old lighthouse at Cabo Falso on the Pacific side of the peninsula north of Cabo San Lucas. Rain comes and goes and wave heights are steadily increasing. Cabo San Lucas is no longer in the projected path of the hurricane. Also saved from the dangerous path of Jimena continue

Mexico and France have united to launch Mexico’s first virtual marine observatory in one of the world’s most vast and diverse eco-systems, the Sea of Cortez. The Jacques Cousteau observatory was conceived to further scientific research on human impact and global warming on Mexico’s baja peninsula and plans to help enforce laws that protect Mexico’s beaches according to officials from France and Mexico. The observatory will exchange costal and oceanic data between Europe and Mexicon stated french ambassador Daniel Parfait. “There is no other country in the world with which France has developed this type of information-sharing observatory” Parfait said continue

Racing action is over and we are stiull busy posting all the images. Our information source regarding the results was not reachbale after the race and we will get details on the result during the course of the day. Below you find a translation by Google translator as you find here on the website, of the La Paz newspaper sport section covering the race. A record of 150 entries are announced to start at El Centenario having all the goal to reach the Tecolote Beach at the other end of the city by doing a loop thru southern Baja racing to and along the Pacific site of the peninsula and crossing over to the Sea of Cortez near Todos Santos. Luis “Fito” Ramirez won the race in overall time of 3 hours 34 minutes 24 seconds. There was some kind of a “traffic-jam” near Los Filos so that many of the race paricipants had a severe delay. continue

The Tecate girls are here and this is always a good sign… not just for the admirer of female curves but for the race fans!! The usual technical inspection and introduction of the teams and drivers is still going why Rudi Ratlos, the flying La Paz BCS Infotheque reporter is posting the first images and feedback about the event! Can’t get any faster, can it?? You can view more images about this evenings Malecon motorsport off-road fiesta – inclusive but not only with them spicy Tecate Girls – at the Coyote 300 website as well at the fastest English language off road desert racing website south of the border in Baja Sur: Puro Off Road – your source for Baja Racing News in CNN like speed!! ….almost! continue

One of the most like races at Baja Sur – many racers rate it even higher as the Dos Mares 500 – is about to start this coming weekend with the usual pre-race events at the Malecon the evening before the race. La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur is well known for its off road races and the Coyote 300 is one of them, with start and finish in the outskirts of La Paz. Off Road Racing in La Paz or better yet, at Baja Sur is one of its most popular activities.

La Paz is also dubbed the “world capital of off-road racing”!! Way beyond the famous Baja 1000 or Dos Mares 500 races which draw countless spectators from up north, continue