The Tip of Baja — El Arco de Cabo at land's end, Medano Beach, marlin fishing at dawn, and a nightlife scene that starts at the marina and doesn't stop
Cabo San Lucas sits at the very tip of the Baja California peninsula where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez, and its defining landmark — El Arco, a dramatic natural stone arch rising from the ocean — is one of the most photographed geological formations in Mexico. The Los Cabos corridor connecting Cabo San Lucas to San José del Cabo strings some of Mexico's best resort hotels along 32 km of Pacific and Sea of Cortez coastline. Medano Beach, the only swimmable beach at the tip itself, is party central; the marina is lined with restaurants, bars, and sport fishing outfitters. Sportfish…
The tip of Baja California was inhabited by the Pericú people for thousands of years, a hunter-gatherer culture that left extensive cave paintings in the Sierra de la Laguna mountains inland. Spanish Jesuit missionaries established a mission at San José del Cabo in 1730 but the Pericú resisted violently; the population was effectively destroyed by European diseases and conflict within a generation. The cape remained a remote fishing community until the 1950s when the Mexican government declared Los Cabos a priority tourism development zone. The paved highway connecting Cabo to the north wasn'…