Los Cabos by the numbers: New perspectives on a remarkable destination

You tin accidental galore things astir Los Cabos, but 1 you can’t is that it’s similar anyplace other connected Earth. It’s unique, a one-of-a-kind marvel, acknowledgment to its 3 chiseled terrains — mountain, godforsaken and water — and the gathering of 2 important bodies of water: the Sea of Cortés and the Pacific Ocean.  

It’s besides the fastest-growing spot successful Mexico and 1 of the country’s astir fashionable tourer destinations. With that successful mind, these are immoderate of the numbers that bespeak what’s astir singular astir Los Cabos, from its geography to its foremost tourer attractions.

1: The fig of the national road that connects the Baja California peninsula

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The thought of a national road connecting the entirety of the peninsula, from Tijuana to Cabo San Lucas, spurring connectivity and economical growth, dates backmost to the 1934-1940 presidency of Lázaro Cárdenas. However, the size and scope of the task were specified that it took respective much decades earlier it was complete. Opened successful 1973, the 1,711-kilometer (1,063-mile) Carretera Transpeninsula was pivotal for tourism maturation successful Los Cabos. The kilometer zero marker successful Cabo San Lucas signifies the extremity of the road. 

18: The fig of play courses unfastened successful Los Cabos

The Jack Nicklaus-designed El Dorado Golf Club is exclusively backstage and for members only. (El Dorado Beach Club)

If you asked immoderate instrumentality of nonrecreational play who the champion subordinate ever was, the reply would apt beryllium Jack Nicklaus oregon Tiger Woods. Both person been iconic figures successful Los Cabos, too. 

Nicklaus enactment the country connected the representation arsenic a play destination successful the aboriginal 1990s and has designed six of Los Cabos’ 18 presently operating play courses. More are nether construction, including the Legacy Club people from Tiger, joining El Cardonal — big of the yearly World Wide Technology Championship, the lone PGA Event successful Los Cabos — and his 12-hole Oasis abbreviated course. 

23.43601 North: The latitude of the Tropic of Cancer wherever it crosses Los Cabos

The Tropic of Cancer Monument successful Los Cabos is located betwixt Santiago and Miraflores. (Los Cabos Tourism Board)

Most of Los Cabos lies beneath the Tropic of Cancer, the northernmost ellipse of latitude wherever the prima tin beryllium seen straight overhead connected the summertime solstice. This iconic latitudinal enactment is memorialized successful 2 locations regionally. However, lone 1 is successful Los Cabos, arsenic the motion marking wherever it crosses betwixt Pescadero and Todos Santos is really successful the La Paz municipality. Los Cabos’ monument, a globe-like sculpture denoting the geographical landmark, is astatine Km 81.5 connected Highway 1 betwixt Miraflores and Santiago. 

25: The fig of Blue Flag beaches successful Los Cabos

Playa El Chileno, a Blue Flag formation beloved by locals. (Los Cabos Tourism Board)

Los Cabos has hundreds of beauteous beaches crossed 125 miles of coastline. However, its best-known beaches, speech from Playa del Amor, alert the Blue Flag, which means they person been certified for cleanliness, services, and sustainability by the Foundation for Environmental Education. That’s much Blue Flag beaches than immoderate different municipality successful Mexico.

33: The kilometers of roadworthy connected the Scenic Route that connects the cape cities

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Los Cabos gets its sanction from its 2 cape cities, Cabo San Lucas and San José del Cabo. The 2 are acold from the lone notable parts of a municipality that spans 1,448 quadrate miles. However, these cities are the bosom of the tourism analyzable and are divided by a coastal corridor, oregon Scenic Route, that is 33 kilometers —just implicit 20 miles — successful length.

508: The mean nightly edifice complaint successful dollars successful Los Cabos successful 2025

Los Cabos is present Mexico’s astir costly abrogation destination. (TripAdvisor)

Consciously rebranded arsenic a luxury destination successful caller decades, Los Cabos is the astir costly abrogation destination successful the nation, with an mean nightly edifice complaint of US A$508 arsenic of January 2025. That doesn’t mean budget-friendly hotels don’t exist. They do. However, what sets Los Cabos apart, hospitality-wise, is its wealthiness of world-class options. 

It besides bears noting that visitors person a assortment of places to stay. Cabo San Lucas has the astir edifice rooms, portion San José del Cabo boasts fantabulous resorts on its Playa Hotelera. Meanwhile, the 20-mile Scenic Route that connects the cape cities offers the top attraction of luxury resorts, and the East Cape has immoderate of the champion boutique accommodations. 

351,111: The colonisation of Los Cabos arsenic of the past census

The colonisation successful Los Cabos is skyrocketing. (Shutterstock)

The skyrocketing maturation of Los Cabos has been well-documented, but to enactment it successful perspective, the colonisation grew from 43,920 successful 1990 to 351,111 successful 2020 and is expected to scope 700,000 by 2040.

3,930,000: The fig of radical who visited Los Cabos successful 2024

Los Cabos received astir 4 cardinal visitors successful 2024, a caller record. (Jeat1993/Wikimedia Commons)

Like its colonisation numbers, Los Cabos has seen a spike successful visitors implicit the past 35 years. From 1990 to 2000, annual visitors climbed from conscionable implicit 200,000 to astir fractional a million. By 2010, it saw astir a cardinal annually, and successful 2019, it logged 2.3 cardinal home and planetary visitors. The numbers proceed to rise, with caller records acceptable virtually each year. The astir caller was achieved by the 3.93 cardinal visitors successful 2024.

5,000,000: The property of the Gulf of California

A NASA representation of the Gulf of California. (NASA)

The San Andreas Fault is known for causing large, destructive earthquakes. However, it’s besides liable for forming the Gulf of California, known locally arsenic the Sea of Cortés. Until 10 cardinal years ago, the Baja California peninsula was portion of the Mexican mainland, with Los Cabos attached to Jalisco. Then, owed to shifting tectonic plates on the sheet bound — a.k.a. the San Andreas Fault System — the recently formed peninsula began to determination away, making mode for a caller sea. 

The Gulf of Californiathus came into being sometime betwixt five and 10 cardinal years ago. The peninsula is inactive moving distant dilatory from the mainland and whitethorn yet interruption disconnected and go an island. Don’t interest astir that affecting your abrogation plans, though. We’ll each beryllium agelong gone by then.

84,000,000: The property of El Arco and the oldest granite monuments astatine Land’s End

The evocative granite monuments astatine Land’s End successful Cabo San Lucas are some beauteous and unfathomably old. (Los Cabos Tourism Board)

Cabo San Lucas’ half-mile headland, Land’s End, frames its bay and serves arsenic a locus for water-based activities. It’s location to a fistful of beaches — astir notably, Playa del Amor— and respective spectacular granite monuments, the astir celebrated of which is El Arco (the Arch). 

Geological estimates for the oldest granitic monuments astatine Land’s End suggest a mind-blowing antiquity. According to “The Atlas of Coastal Ecosystems successful the Western Gulf of California,” the Cretaceous Period granite that forms El Arco is equivalent successful property to that recovered astatine subsurface volcanic sites astatine Las Tres Virgenes successful the municipality of Mulegé:  astir 84 cardinal years old.

Chris Sands is the Cabo San Lucas section adept for the USA Today question website 10 Best, writer of Fodor’s Los Cabos question guidebook and a contributor to galore websites and publications, including Tasting Table, Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, Forbes Travel Guide, Porthole Cruise, Cabo Living and Mexico News Daily. His specialty is travel-related contented and manner features focused connected food, vino and golf.