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Santiago is located about 35 miles from San José del Cabo in Baja California Sur. You will delight your eyes as you see the colorful agriculture farms and fruit orchards surrounded by thousands of majestic palm trees, which represent an important source of palm leaves for making palapa roofs throughout the Cape region.
As we bypass the small plaza, there are the post and telegraph offices, a gas station, some stores, and a market selling local fruit and vegetables. The town was founded as "Misión de Santiago el Apóstol" in 1723 and the natives celebrate its patron saint day, the feast day of St. James, on the 25th of July. Santiago has a small rustic museum located next to the church with interesting exhibits such as colonial artifacts and local fossils.
No visit to Santiago would be complete without a trip to the Santiago Zoo, which has a variety of animals endemic to the region. The animal exhibits are complemented by a masterfully cultivated decoration of gardens, featuring mango and avocado trees and a variety of cacti species and succulents endemic to the Southern Baja region.
There is no better way to end this amazing adventure of a day, than with a delicious lunch sitting in the gardens of the Restaurant and Hotel Palomar in Santiago. Caduaño, Santiago, and Miraflores are sacred unexplored places, with friendly native faces that display great satisfaction existing amid the traditional Mexican ways of living. The people of these magnificent villages pave the future with amazing moments from the past, and bring Baja California back to its roots.
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