Lower California

American  

[loh-er] / ˈloʊ ər /

noun

1. Baja California.

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Lower California British  

noun

1. Spanish name: Baja California.  a mountainous peninsula of NW Mexico, between the Pacific and the Gulf of California: administratively divided into the states of Baja California (or Baja California Norte) and Baja California Sur

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Lower California

His Lower California ranch is a 3,000-acre affair with 40,000 almond, olive and prune trees, air-conditioned house, bar, and the kidney-shaped swimming pool common to castles in those latitudes.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the ineptitude of a musical comedy without music, the scene shifts quickly to a Manhattan dress shoppe, to a Westchester Country club, to "the Conquistador Hotel in Baja California," which means Lower California.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last year former President Pascual Ortiz Rubio ordered General Arturo Campillo Seyde to go up to Lower California and see what was going on.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the first seven days after their splashdown off Lower California, the crew had little chance to sightsee.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not part of mainland Mexico, Ensenada was located on the long, narrow peninsula that hung down the western coast and was known as Baja, or Lower, California.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty