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San Fernando Church
Constructed on XX century his architecture is of neoclassic type and it is the principal temple of the port. Constructed in 1850. Located in avenida Alfonso Iberri between 24 and 25 street, Colonia Centro.
13 of July Square
With his moorish kiosk, is one of the more representative places of the port, founded in the century XIX it is also an important point in the history of the Port since it symbolize the Heroic Battle between the Guaymas people commanded by General José María Yañez and the frenchs in 1854.
Additional to this, the designer of this kiosk was the builder of the Eiffel Tower of Paris, France.
Municipal Palace
Constructed in 1899. Located in Avenida Serdán between 22 and 23 street Colonia Centro, Guaymas, Sonora, next to the Three Presidents Square.
Three Presidents Square
The Three Presidents Square was constructed in Adolfo de la Huerta, Plutarco Elías Calles and Abelardo Rodríguez honor, all of them native of Guaymas and presidents of Mexico.
Fisherman Square
Easily rcognized for its statue of the fisherman and the song of "La Barca de Guaymas" in it, it is located on the levee in front of the Bay, and it is the most representative symbol of the port
Municipal Market
Easy to locate in the center of the city, you can find fruits and vegetables, clothes, shoes, regional snacks, typical artesanal items of the region as the palo fierro, baskets, and arrangements of shells and snails, among others.
San Germán's Temple
Constructed in XIX century, located in Colonia San Germán, Guaymas, Sonora.
Sonora's Bank
Neoclassical style construction located next to Municipal Palace.
During the porfiriato's last years and the first ones of the revolutionary epoch, the principal clients of the bank were those who were forming part of the three principal commercial groups of this epoch. These were: The businessmen who had been associated with don Ramon Corral Verdugo, the German businessmen net and the merchants and Chinese manufacturers.
Estos grupos participaban en las más importantes actividades económicas del estado de Sonora.
Old Public Jail
Constructed in 1890, still preserves its cells and courts. At present it is used as gallery and exhibition center. It's located on 15 South Street Colonia Centro, Guaymas, Sonora.
Jesus' Sacred Heart Temple
It is the most ancient of all the churches and temples and as San Fernando its architecture is of neoclassic type.
Pearl Farm
One of the most interesting visits on your visit to this destiny is the Pearl Farm, unique in the American continent, located in the Bay Bacochibampo in Guaymas's city. The pearls of the Mar of Cortes are the finest of the world, thanks to its high quality and unusual colors: silver grey, opalescent grey, golden, bronze, olive green, purple, violet and black, always with varied tones: rosy, purplish, green and blue. It is said that they are the most exotic gems of the world due to two reasons: his limited annual production of five thousand pieces and his strict Quality Control. Only a few can be proud of having one of these rare gems.
Sahuaral
The Sahuaral area is a place where we can contemplate the beauty of enormous teasels of approximately 500 years that manage to measure up to eight meters of height. To be able to estimate these giants of the Desert we must enter San Jose de Guaymas located 20 minutes of Guaymas and San Carlos.
Delfinario
Located in San Carlos New Guaymas, the Delfinario Sonora will be a first level tourist interactive spectacle and also an opportunity to help the kids with Sindrome de Down, brain paralysis and other disabilities.
Educational Tours
- Adults $80.00.
- 60 years old adults (with INSEN credential) $30.00.
- Kids (3 to 12 years) $50.00.
- Groups of students with reservation $30.00.
- Groups of students with reservation (high school, college, degree) $40.00.
- Special price for groups with previous reservation.
Touching table.
It is an area where everything can be touched, and you will learn a bit about the bones and the evolution of marine mammals like: whales, dolphins and marine wolves, besides other organisms as the invertebrates.
Marine Wolves.
Con Ulises y Ariadna (nuestros lobos marinos) aprenderán cerca de su anatomía y las diferencias de estos con las focas. Además, les mostrarán los ejercicios que ellos han aprendido en su entrenamiento y algunas personas podrán alimentarlos.
Dolphins.
With Ulises and Ariadna (our marine wolves) you will learn abut its anatomy and the differences of these with the seals. Besides, they will show you the exercises that they have learned in its training and some persons will be able to feed them.
You will attend a swim or training session where you will learn about the external anatomy and biology of the dolphins, while you observe the jumps and exercises that have prepared for you.
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Swim with dolphins.
- Interactive swimming $1,000.00
- Educational swimming $400.00
Interactive Swimming.
Take part learning about the dolphins while you knows the physical characteristics of these surprising mammals while you swim with them. Coexists, swim, receive a kiss of the dolphins and experiences a jump over you and take you into the water with great force. For safety reasons, pregnant women are not allowed to participate.
Educational Swimming.
The swimming with dolphins program offers you the unique opportunity to swim with a beautiful bottle nose dolphin. The participants in this program have a glimpse of the tactile nature of the dolphin while these impressive animals vocalize nicely whith the people.
Expert trainers supervise this meeting with the dolphins and offer detailed information about the conduct and biology of these animals. The dolphins also enjoy this experience and demonstrate it with its skill to coexist with the human beings.
The participants must be 1.20 meters tall. The children must be accompanied by an adult.
Schedule:
Saturday and Sundays
10:30 hrs
12:00 hrs
14:00 hrs
15:30 hrs
Theraphy with the dolphins.
- For Sonorenses $12,000.00
- For Outsiders $18,000.00
For more information or group reservations please call (622)-225-2600 to 19.
Panoramic Lookout
A Beautiful construction that offers a panoramic sight of the Sea of Cortes, from where you can appreciate stunning sunsets that offer the sonoran beaches, also you being able to observe the majesty of the Tetakawi Hill.
Tetakawi Hill
Impressive natural formation that welcome us distantly and that has been constituted as unmistakable symbol of the bay. Its steep surface of 200 meters over sea level has turned into a challenge -and simultaneously a delight- for senderismo and climbing practicants. Though the term Tetakawi means hill of stone in Yaqui language, popularly it is asigned to it the Tits of Goat.
Artificial Reefs
A 30 minutes away in boat, leaving from San Carlos towards the north, in front of Las Barajitas Canyon, with a maximum depth of 20 meters, the remains of the Albatun lie since 1992 and 1993, respectively, an old craft atunera, and to very short distance those of the former ferryboat President Díaz Ordaz. Beside being a tourist attraction, both crafts shelter colonies of different species of marine flora and fauna.
Los Algodones Beach
Knowing the fact that its name originates for the delicate texture of its dunes of white sand that make alike cottons balls, it gives us the idea of its level of attraction. The diving, sail boat, windsurfing and many activities more, are endorsed by great class services offered in the zone.
The average temperature varies from 31C in the spring to 18C in the winter. The vegetation that surrounds the beach is principally desert and stand out cactáceas, sahuaros and small bushes. Its fauna is composed by aquatic birds and small ornamental birds.
In vacational seassons like Holy Week and summer this beach is ideal to practice sports. Along the beach you can appreciate attractive hotels and residential developments.
San Francisco Beach
One of the more crowded and extensive of the zone; its soft waves are perfect for all the family, boat trips, snorkel and kayaks. Adjacent hotels offer services of proven quality.
Piedras Pintas Beach
The absence of tourist infrastructure make it very attractive for those that seek to escape to the adventure, especially for those who enjoy to practice diving and snorkeling.
San Pedro Nolasco Island
45 away from the bay it's located the San Pedro Nolasco Island 15 km height by 3 km of width, its 200 meters over sea level, is rocky and does not possess soils. Considered sanctuary of marine wolves from California and thousands of birds which stand out the brown bobo and the pelican, it's one of the favorite places for the practice of diving and snorkeling. To explore the rich ocean with marine wolves playing around us, it is a unique experience that you can't miss.
Its submarine landscape is shaped by beautiful cliffs where you will be able to admire a great variety of beautiful fish and marine fauna. Occasionally mantarrayas and small hammerhead sharks are seen in the zone.
Soldier's Estuary
Its located 20 Km northwest from Guaymas and less than 10 Km. from San Carlos New Guaymas.
It has a surface of 778 hectares divided between swamp zones, water and the land part is composed by sand dunes and bushes.
In this case most of the water entry is salty and enters to the estuary by the mouth, being distributed in the rest of the place by the tides that come from the Gulf of California.
In routes to be considered a Natural Protected Area, this aquatic ecosystem is a refuge of hundreds of kinds of plants and animals, its also the only place of the northwest of the country with the three kinds of swamps that exist in the continent.
The swamps have a fundamental role since they assure the sustentabilty of the regional fishing, due to the fact that its roots serve as places of reproduction, nursing and refuge against predators. Besides the mangrove produces verbiage which decomposes and then brings many nutrients to the soil, allowing the proliferation of some species of commercial importance like: brown and blue shrimp, clams, oysters and crabs.
Besides the estuary constitutes a place of refuge, nesting, nourishment and rest for many local and migratory birds, since it is "the last mangrove oasis in the northwest of Mexico". In summer we can find about 35 species of birds in groups of 500 to 800 individuals and during the winter they have been registered near 115 species of birds in groups of up to 3,000 individuals. The birds come from diverse parts of the world as Chile, Canada, The United States including Alaska.
The Soldier's Estuary offers us diverse enviromental services, provides us with food, economic sustenance to the region, it is a place of scattering and recreation for the whole family, offers beautiful landscapes and the opportunity to realize activities as kayaks and rowing boats without any risk.
Nacapule Canyon
An authentic tropical paradise in the middle of the desert, where the humidity concentration, protected by spectacular rocky formations, they have created an exotic ecosystem with flora and very particular fauna. Crystalline eyes of water, trees of nacapule, palms, cactus and endemic plants, are a part of what we can admire in its 6 kilometres tour to the north of San Carlos. It measures approximately one kilometre and a half of length, with walls that reach 80 meters of height.
Marinas
San Carlos have two world class marinas: Marina San Carlos and Marina Real, both with wharves and little more than 700 piers. Ship or without it you will be able to enjoy beautiful views from these areas.
Marina Real
Telephone (622) 22 70011 / 22 70110
Marina San Carlos
Telephone (622) 22 61102
www.marinasancarlos.com
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