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Sinaloa , officially the Free and Sovereign State of Sinaloa , is one of the 31 states which , with the Federal District , compose the 32 Federal Entities of ___MASK1___ . It is divided into 18 municipalities and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales . The Baja ___MASK32___ Peninsula is a peninsula in Northwestern ___MASK1___ . Its land mass separates the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of ___MASK32___ . The peninsula extends from Mexicali , Baja ___MASK32___ in the north to Cabo San Lucas , Baja ___MASK32___ Sur in the south . It ranges from at its narrowest to at its widest point and has approximately of coastline and approximately 65 islands . The total area of the Baja ___MASK32___ Peninsula is . Isla Tortuga ( Tortuga Island ) is an island in the Gulf of ___MASK32___ , created relatively recently in geologic terms by the volcanism associated with the East Pacific Rise . It lies east - northeast of the city of Santa Rosalía , in Mulegé Municipality . It has a surface area of 11 . 374 km² ( 4 . 39 sq mi ) . Tortuga Island rattlesnake ( Crotalus tortugensis ) is endemic to Isla Tortuga -- it is found nowhere else . It is very abundant on the island and found everywhere , except in the caldera of the volcano . The Pacific - ___MASK89___ Ridge ( PAR ) is a divergent tectonic plate boundary located on the seafloor of the South Pacific Ocean , separating the Pacific Plate from the ___MASK89___ Plate . It is regarded as the southern section of the East Pacific Rise in some usages , generally south of the Challenger Fracture Zone and stretching to the Macquarie Triple Junction south of ___MASK70___ . The East Pacific Rise is a mid - oceanic ridge , a divergent tectonic plate boundary located along the floor of the Pacific Ocean . It separates the Pacific Plate to the west from ( north to south ) the North American Plate , the Rivera Plate , the Cocos Plate , the Nazca Plate , and the ___MASK89___ Plate . It runs from south from the Gulf of California in the Salton Sea basin in southern California to a point near 55 ° S , 130 ° W where it joins the Pacific - ___MASK89___ Ridge trending west - southwest towards ___MASK56___ near ___MASK70___ ( though in some uses the PAR is regarded as the southern section of the EPR ). Much of the rise lies about 3200 km ( 2000 mi ) off the South American coast and rises about 1 , 800  2 , 700 m ( 6 , 000  9 , 000 ft ) above the surrounding seafloor . ___MASK32___ is the most populous state in the ___MASK21___ and the third most extensive by area . Located on the western ( Pacific Ocean ) coast of the U . S ., ___MASK32___ is bordered by the other U . S . states of Oregon , Nevada , and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja ___MASK32___ . The state capital is Sacramento . Los Angeles is ___MASK32___ ' s most populous city , and the country ' s second largest after New York City . The state also has the nation ' s most populous county , Los Angeles County , and its largest county by area , San Bernardino County . Mulegé is the northernmost municipality of the Mexican state of Baja ___MASK32___ Sur . It is the second - largest ( behind only Ensenada ) municipality by area in the country , with an area of 32 , 092 . 2 km² ( 12 , 777 sq mi ). In the census of 2010 it had a population of 59 , 114 inhabitants . Isla Natividad is part of the municipality . The Salton Sea is a shallow , saline , endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault , predominantly in ___MASK32___ ' s Imperial and Coachella Valleys . Baja ___MASK32___ , officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja ___MASK32___ , is a state in ___MASK1___ . It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 31 states which , with ___MASK1___ City , comprises the 32 Federal Entities of ___MASK1___ . Before becoming a state in 1953 , the area was known as the North Territory of Baja ___MASK32___ (" El Territorio Norte de Baja ___MASK32___ "). It has an area of , or 3 . 57 % of the land mass of ___MASK1___ and comprises the northern half of the Baja ___MASK32___ Peninsula , north of the 28th parallel , plus oceanic Guadalupe Island . The mainland portion of the state is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean , on the east by Sonora , the U . S . State of Arizona , and the Gulf of ___MASK32___ ( also known as the " Sea of Cortez "), and on the south by Baja ___MASK32___ Sur . Its northern limit is the U . S . state of ___MASK32___ . Spanish (, also called Castilian ) is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of ___MASK13___ and today has hundreds of millions of native - speakers across the ___MASK27___ . The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to ___MASK56___ ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east . ___MASK56___ ( US English , UK English or ) is Earth ' s southernmost continent . It contains the geographic South Pole and is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere , almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle , and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean . At , it is the fifth - largest continent . For comparison , ___MASK56___ is nearly twice the size of Australia . About 98 % of ___MASK56___ is covered by ice that averages in thickness , which extends to all but the northernmost reaches of the Antarctic Peninsula . The Gulf of ___MASK32___ ( also known as the Sea of Cortez , Sea of Cortés or Vermilion Sea ; locally known in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés or Mar Bermejo or Golfo de ___MASK32___ ) is a body of water that separates the Baja ___MASK32___ Peninsula from the Mexican mainland . It is bordered by the states of Baja ___MASK32___ , Baja ___MASK32___ Sur , Sonora , and Sinaloa with a coastline of approximately . Rivers which flow into the Gulf of ___MASK32___ include the Colorado , Fuerte , Mayo , Sinaloa , Sonora , and the Yaqui . The gulf ' s surface area is about . ___MASK70___ is an island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean . The country geographically comprises two main landmasses  that of the North Island , or Te Ika - a - Mui , and the South Island , or Te Waipounamu  and numerous smaller islands . ___MASK70___ is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia , Fiji , and Tonga . Because of its remoteness , it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans . During its long period of isolation , ___MASK70___ developed a distinct biodiversity of animal , fungal and plant life . The country ' s varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks , such as the Southern Alps , owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions . ___MASK70___ ' s capital city is Wellington , while its most populous city is Auckland . Isla Natividad is an island in the Pacific Ocean 6 km west off Punta Eugenia , the northwestern headland of the Mexican state of Baja ___MASK32___ Sur . 200 meters off its northwestern end lies Roca María at , with an area of 0 . 074 km . Isla Natividad is separated from the mainland at Punta Eugenia by Canal de Dewey ( Dewey ' s Channel ), and from Cedros Island ( Baja ___MASK32___ ), which is 15 km to the north , by Canal de Keller ( Canal Kellett ). The North American Plate is a tectonic plate covering most of North America , ___MASK73___ , ___MASK2___ , the Bahamas , extreme northeastern Russia , and parts of Iceland and the Azores . It extends eastward to the Mid - Atlantic Ridge and westward to the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia . The plate includes both continental and oceanic crust . The interior of the main continental landmass includes an extensive granitic core called a craton . Along most of the edges of this craton are fragments of crustal material called terranes , accreted to the craton by tectonic actions over the long span of geologic time . It is thought that much of North America west of the Rocky Mountains is composed of such terranes . Baja ___MASK32___ Sur , lit . " South Lower ___MASK32___ ", officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja ___MASK32___ Sur , is the second - smallest Mexican state by population and the 31st admitted state of the 31 states which , with the ___MASK1___ City , make up the 32 Federal Entities of ___MASK1___ . Sonora , officially the Free and Sovereign State of Sonora , is one of 31 states that , with ___MASK1___ City , comprise the 32 federal entities of ___MASK1___ . It is divided into 72 municipalities ; the capital city is Hermosillo . Sonora is located in Northwest ___MASK1___ , bordered by the states of Chihuahua to the east , Baja California to the northwest and Sinaloa to the south . To the north , it shares the U . S . ___MASK1___ border with the states of Arizona and New ___MASK1___ , and on the west has a significant share of the coastline of the Gulf of California . The ___MASK89___ Plate is a tectonic plate containing the continent of ___MASK56___ and extending outward under the surrounding oceans . After breakup from Gondwana ( the southern part of the supercontinent Pangea ), the ___MASK89___ plate began moving the continent of ___MASK56___ south to its present isolated location causing the continent to develop a much colder climate . The ___MASK89___ Plate is bounded almost entirely by extensional mid - ocean ridge systems . The adjoining plates are the Nazca Plate , the South American Plate , the African Plate , the Indo - Australian Plate , the Pacific Plate , and , across a transform boundary , the Scotia Plate . The Nazca Plate , named after the Nazca region of southern ___MASK49___ , is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the west coast of South America . The ongoing subduction , along the ___MASK49___  Chile Trench , of the Nazca Plate under the South American Plate is largely responsible for the Andean orogeny . The Nazca Plate is bounded on the west by the Pacific Plate and to the south by the Antarctic Plate through the East Pacific Rise and the Chile Rise respectively . The movement of the Nazca Plate over several hotspots has created some volcanic islands as well as east - west running seamount chains that subduct under South America . Nazca is a relatively young plate both in terms of the age of its rocks and its existence as an independent plate having been formed from the break - up of the Farallon Plate about 23 million years ago . The oldest rocks of the plate are about 50 million years old . The Rivera Plate is a small tectonic plate ( a microplate ) located off the west coast of ___MASK1___ , just south of the Baja California Peninsula . It is bounded on the northwest by the East Pacific Rise , on the southwest by the Rivera Transform Fault , on the southeast by a deformation zone , and on the northeast by the Middle America Trench and another deformation zone .