Baja Mar, alternatively Bajamar, is a seaside resort

Seaside resort

A seaside resort is a resort, or resort town, located on the coast. Where a beach is the primary focus for tourists, it may be called a beach resort.- Overview :...

 community in Ensenada Municipality, Baja California

Baja California

Baja California officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is both the northernmost and westernmost state of Mexico. Before becoming a state in 1953, the area was known as the North...

 twenty minutes north of Ensenada

Ensenada, Baja California

Ensenada is a coastal city in Mexico and the third-largest city in Baja California. It is located south of San Diego on the Baja California Peninsula. The city is locally referred to as La Cenicienta del Pacífico, or, The Cinderella of the Pacific...

 and forty minutes south of Greater San Diego–Tijuana. The resort community is located just south of another gringo

Gringo

Gringo is a slang Spanish and Portuguese word used in Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America, to denote foreigners, often from the United States. The term can be applied to someone who is actually a foreigner, or it can denote a strong association or assimilation into...

 community, La Salina

La Salina, Baja California

La Salina is a gringo community in the Mexican state of Baja California. It is located on the beach 73 km south of Tijuana at 32° 03´36" N 116° 52´ 42" W. La Salina is the home of Puerto Salina, the first marina in Mexico south of the United States border on the Pacific Ocean. The marina has 240...

 – host of the Puerto Salina

Puerto Salina

Marina Puerto Salina is in the Mexican state of Baja California. It is located at 73 km south of Tijuana at 32° 3.28´N 116° 53.20´W. Puerto Salina is the first marina in Mexico south of the United States border on the Pacific Ocean. Puerto Salina is located next to La Salina, Baja California, 62...

 marina

Marina

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.

History

The idea of the resort at Baja Mar was developed in 1975 by Grupo Valcas, a resort developer. Planning, development and initial construction of what would become the Bajamar Ocean Front Golf Resort was begun by Grupo Valcas as well. The master infrastructure of the community was developed so that, unlike nearby cities, it would maintain underground basic utilities. The resort company also developed the first 18 holes of the master planned golf course network. The resort opened to the general public in July of 1976 and has since been given the nickname of The Pebble Beach South of the Border. Further development of the resort occurred in 1991 when the original developer entered a partnership with another hotel and resort developer to complete the master planned

Planned community

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 property. Following the joint-ventured agreement the 81-room hotel of the resort was constructed in addition to the Oceanó golf course, one of three currently existing courses.

The Bajamar Ocean Front Golf Resort is currently owned by Grupo Mega Turismo, based in Mazatlan

Mazatlán

Mazatlán is a city in the Mexican state of Sinaloa; the surrounding municipio for which the city serves as the municipal seat is Mazatlán Municipality. It is located at on the Pacific coast, across from the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula.Mazatlán is a Nahuatl word meaning...

, Bay View Grand, and Grupo Valcas. Baja Mar itself has approximately 600 completed homes and a 15000 square feet (1,393.5 m²) clubhouse, whilst maintaining guarded gates.

Geography

Baja Mar lies on a rugged strip of coastline of the Baja California Gold Coast. The seaside resort faces west towards the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

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 and a highrise rounded cliff is located to its east.

Tourism

Baja Mar features three golf courses at the Bajamar Ocean Front Golf Resort that include the renowned Oceanó, as well as the Vista and Lagos courses. North of the resort are popular surf breaks, Puerto Nuevo

Puerto Nuevo, Baja California

Puerto Nuevo is a community located in Rosarito Beach Municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California; it is famous as the "Lobster Village" of Baja California...

, and nearby Rosarito Beach.