Lower California
Americannoun
noun
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In booming Lower California, Mexico's newest state, ranchers have sown the republic's biggest wheat fields in reclaimed desert land, and set out hundreds of thousands of fruit and nut trees beside newly driven artesian wells.
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As early as 1899 he launched a syndicate which bought up 862,000 acres of Lower California.
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Today that part of Lower California is about as dry as possible; Dr. Hubbs thinks that the region probably got more rain during both its warm and its cold spells.
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Last year former President Pascual Ortiz Rubio ordered General Arturo Campillo Seyde to go up to Lower California and see what was going on.
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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
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