Tiburón Island
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Tiburón Island is the largest island in the Gulf of California and the largest island in Mexico, with an area of 1,201 square kilometres (464 sq mi).[1] It is uninhabited and it was made a nature reserve in 1963 by President Adolfo López Mateos.[2][3][full citation needed]
Etymology
Tiburón is Spanish for 'shark'. Although the Seri name, Tahejöc, was first recorded by Alphonse Pinart in 1879,[4] its etymology is unknown.
Geography
Tiburón Island is part of the
The island has a prominent mountain system of volcanic origin.
History
Tiburón Island is part of the traditional homeland of some bands (or clans) of the Seri people, for many centuries if not millennia.[5] During the 1960s and early 1970s, a small hunting and fishing camp on the northern end of the island was operated by Jesus Olivas, a resident of Hermosillo. He constructed several buildings, a dock and an airstrip near the historic Seri encampment at Tecomate. The camp was popular with American visitors to the area. The remains of the structures and airstrip are still in place (although the airstrip was rendered unusable by the Mexican military around 1995 in an attempt to keep it from being used by smugglers active in the area at the time). The Mexican government, through a decree by President Echeverría, gave the Seri "recognition and title of communal property" (reconocimiento y titulación de terrenos comunales) with respect to Tiburón Island in 1975.[2]
The island is uninhabited (except for Mexican military encampments on the eastern and southern shores of the island) and is administered as an ecological preserve by the Seri tribal government in conjunction with the federal government.
Transportation
The island can be reached from
Recreation
Two permits are required for day hiking and overnight stays on the island: one from the Seri Governor's office in Punta Chueca and another from the ISLAS office in Bahía de Kino.
In popular culture
In 2012, two television episodes of Survivorman were filmed on Tiburón Island, featuring Les Stroud as he spends ten days living on the island.[9] Mermaids of Tiburon is a 1962 film about a diver looking for buried treasure who comes across mermaids.
See also
Notes
- INEGI. Archived from the originalon 2007-08-17.
- ^ SEGOB. 11 February 1975. Archivedfrom the original on 2020-09-17.
- ^ Comisión de Desarrollo de la Tribu Seri. (1976) Tribus de Sonora: Los seris. Hermosillo, Sonora.
- ^ Pinart, Alphonse Louis. "Seri Vocabulary" (4 April 1879) [Manuscript]. Bureau of American Ethnology, File: Manuscript 1146, ID: NAA.MS1146, pp. 27. Washington, D.C.: National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
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- ^ Festa-Bianchet, M. 2020. Ovis canadensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T15735A22146699. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-2.RLTS.T15735A22146699.en. Downloaded on 10 April 2021.
- JSTOR 3503817.
- ^ "Odocoileus hemionus sheldoni". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- ^ Stroud, Les (2016). "Survivorman – Season 5". Official Survivorman Website. Archived from the original on 2020-09-17.
External links
Media related to Tiburón Island at Wikimedia Commons