VALLE DE LOS CIRIOS /DESIERTO CENTRAL DE BAJA CALIFORNIA
[CIRIOS VALLEY / MIDDLE  DESERT OF BAJA CALIFORNIA]

Start the route by the Transpeninsular Highway Num. 1 approximately 356 Km. south of Tijuana and 246 Km. of Ensenada in the village of El Rosario, where the road takes off from the Pacific coast to turn east towards an elongated peninsular desert where the entrance to Valle de los Cirios is at. It is a protected natural reserve of over 2.5 million  hectares, which are part of an important biological corridor limited by the Desierto del Vizcaíno [Vizcaino Desert] to the south, and by the Sierra de San Pedro Mártir to the north, the three of them altogether cover more than five degrees in latitude of Federal protected nature reserve.

Well preserved desert vegetation, along with preservation all the species native to this area, makes it very rich in natural resources thus a place to be visit and enjoy all of what it has to offer animals that are native to this kind of habitat, are highly attractive to visitors, and cause the zone to be of great biological and natural importance throughout the country. This area is named after the cirio, an endemic cactus of peculiar shape.