San Carlos Nuevo Guaymas
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San Carlos is a beachfront subdivision within the port city of Guaymas, in the northern state of Sonora in Mexico. It is noted for the exceptional clarity and warmth of the ocean water in its shallow bays. It lies on the body of water known as the Gulf of California or Sea of Cortez. Given the size of the city, with nearly 7,000 inhabitants, there is a remarkable number of RV parks, resorts and stores. There is also a very large and active diving community.[citation needed]
There are also many Americans and Canadians that live in San Carlos during the Winter as the Summer months are very hot. There are many opportunities to fish, dive, and relax on the beach.[citation needed]
San Carlos is a roughly 6 hour drive from the United States along Mexican interstate Highway 15. The trip from the United States requires that foreigners obtain a tourist visa, but they are no longer required to get a car permit if they are traveling by private automobile. This is only required if they travel south of Guaymas. The area where these car permits are obtained is referred to as "El 21" as it is 21 kilometers from the border or at the border itself. Also, some of the highways in Mexico are actually tollways, and cars are required to stop at checkpoints roughly every 150 kilometers to pay a nominal fee. Non-toll roads are also prone to have unexpected speed bumps ("topes").
[edit] History and legal background
The community of San Carlos was founded on lands that previously integrated a large cattle ranch known as the Baviso de Navarro. This was later subdivided in four great estates known as Ranch Los Algodones, Ranch San Carlos, Ranch El Baviso and Ranch El Represo. In the mid 1950s, Mr. Rafael T. Caballero acquired the ranches Los Algodones, San Carlos and El Baviso, contracting the services of City planners who designed the first stages of a gradual and carefully planned tourist development that in time would become one of the first and most important tourist and recreational communities in the State.[citation needed]
When the private investors began the initial works for this development, in support of this vision, the State Congress of Sonora during the governorship of Lic. Luis Encinas Johnson issued a declaration establishing the official incorporation of the Township of San Carlos, Nuevo Guaymas, Municipality of Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, through a Decree published in the State Official Bulletin Government no. 26, on the 28 of September,1963, with an endowment of 27.746 square kilometres of privately owned lands located in the Southern portion of the estate Ranch El Baviso.[citation needed]
To complement the Township Land Endowment, the State Congress, during the office of Governor Faustino Felix Serna, increased the Legal Land Fund by adding the estates known as Ranch San Carlos and Ranch Los Algodones, both with a surface of 22.04 km², as published in the Official State Bulletin no. 23, on the 21 of March, 1973. A total of 49.79 km² of privately owned lands constitute the territorial reserves of this development.[citation needed]
On July 1, 1976, The Agrarian reform Secretariat, through the Director of Legal Affaires, declared by means of official notification no. 240-438155, Reference XV; that the mentioned privately owned lands located in the remaining lands of the estates El Baviso and San Carlos, have no agrarian legal claims upon them, and consequently the proprietors are free to lien, to encumber, to contribute to societies, to merge, to cede on trusteeship and to freely dispose of these lands. In that same official notice it is recognized that the proprietors of these four estates, voluntarily ceded to the Federal Government part of their lands for the creation of the new center of population and for the formation of the Ejido 13 of July, affecting the Northern and the western portions of the estates San Carlos, El Baviso, Los Algodones and El Represo. The above in accordance to the Presidential Resolution of July 15, 1968, was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on the 27 of August of 1968.[citation needed] In support of the objectives set forth by the private investors for the development of a new tourist destination, the Agrarian Reform Secretariat, the Secretary of Human Settlements and Public Works, and the Secretary of Tourism, altogether issued a Declaration of High-priority Tourist Zoning, for all the effects of law; in favor of the estates El Baviso, San Carlos and Los Algodones, owned by Grupo Caballero. The cited declaration was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation No. 34 on the 15 of August, 1980.[citation needed]
[edit] Politics, motion pictures and tourism
In the State of Sonora as well as its personable cities and towns, you will find diversity in 'real time' leisure attractions, as well as a strong historical perspective. Filled with great presidential traditions, Guaymas is the birthplace of three former Republic of Mexico presidents:
Abelardo Rodriguez, Plutarco Elias Calles and Adolfo de la Huerta
In the Mid 1950's, Rafael T. Caballero (Grupo Caballero founder) purchased 3 large ranches known as "El Baviso", "Rancho San Carlos" and "Los Algodones" and began planning and development of San Carlos. The idea of a low density, environmentally friendly resort and retirement community has been proven not only prudent, but visionary! In the 1960's, San Carlos caught the eye of the motion picture industry from California - going 'Hollywood' as the location site of many movies, including:
The classic 'Catch 22' -starring Alan Arkin, Orson Welles, Martin Sheen, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins & more The Mask of Zorro{ - starring Antonio Banderas, Anthony Hopkins & Catherine Zeta Jones Lucky Lady - starring Liza Minnelli 'Camaroneros' - Mexican production staring Erick del Castillo Spanish language Soap Opera - Por Tu Amor
Later, directors, actors and movie crews descended on the area just 7 miles to the northwest of Guaymas and started planting the seeds of modern day San Carlos.[citation needed]
Soon thereafter, the hotel/resorts of Paradiso and the San Carlos Plaza were built - occupying exceptionally attractive beach frontage.
By 1963 a "Master Plan" was in place and the infrastructure development underway.
