Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Río Colorado - Zona Núcleo

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Key Information

TYPE

MPA Subzone

DESIGNATION

Biosphere Reserve Core Zone

LOCATED IN

Baja California, Sonora

Mexico

AREA

809 km²	MARINE AREA
1,647 km²	TOTAL AREA ⁱ

MANAGED BY

Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas

Management Website

LEVEL OF FISHING PROTECTION (LFP)

Most Restrictive ⁱ

Marine life removal is prohibited (or entry is prohibited)

DATA SOURCE(S)

Regulations: CONANP

Boundary: COBI (Unmodified)

DATA VERSION

2.0

LAST REVIEWED

December 2023

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Purpose

To protect the best preserved areas, which support natural phenomena of special importance, such as breeding and feeding sites for marine species, migratory bird nesting sites, and relevant ecological processes.

Species of Concern: vaquita, minke whale, blue whale, fin whale, long-beaked common dolphin, gray whale, pilot whale, Risso dolphin, Pygmy sperm whale, humpback whale, dwarf peccary whale, orca, sea turtles, sperm whale, bottlenose dolphin, sea lion, totoaba, desert pupfish, mangrove rail

Regulations Summary

Restrictions

The following is prohibited:
1. Aquatic-recreational activities
2. Hunting activities
3. Aquaculture promotion and teaching
4. Agriculture
5. Opening of gaps or paths
6. Use of material banks
7. Non-timber forestry use
8. Artificial reefs
9. Diving (autonomous or free)
10. Temporary fishing camps
11. Change of land use
12. Manual capture of mollusks
13. Waste confinement
14. Construction of tourist infrastructure
15. Construction of public or private works.
16. Commercial cultivation of crustaceans, mollusks or fish, in ponds
17. Cultivation of halophytic species
18. Real estate developments in coastal areas
19. Light bonfires
20. Mining exploration
21. Mining exploitation
22. Extraction of tule or reed
23. Livestock
24. Commercial mariculture
25. Modification of dunes
26. Modification of the coastline
27. Modify tidal flows
28. Drilling wells
29. Fishing with high multispecific selectivity.
30. Fishing with low multispecies selectivity and high risk of bycatch.
31. Fishing with low multispecies selectivity and low risk of bycatch.
32. Fishing for domestic consumption
33. Promotional fishing
34. Sport-recreational fishing
35. Educational fishing
36. Land tours or races with motorized vehicles
37. Remove or extract byproducts of wild flora and fauna
38. Tourist camp sites
39. Sites for use of all-terrain vehicles
40. Tourism
41. Use of airboats or boats
42. Use of boats with gasoline outboard motors.

Allowed

1. Control of harmful species
2. Ecotourism or low impact tourism
3. Environmental education
4. Research and monitoring
5. Navigation in transit
6. Boat tours for tourist purposes
7. Restoration
8. Interpretive trails
9. Signage.

Governing Regulations

DECRETO por el que se declara área natural protegida con el carácter de Reserva de la Biosfera, la región conocida como Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Río Colorado, ubicada en aguas del Golfo de California y los municipios de Mexicali, B.C., de Puerto Peñasco y San Luis Río Colorado, Son; AVISO por el que se informa al público en general que la Comisión Nacional de Areas Naturales Protegidas ha concluido la elaboración del Programa de Manejo de la Reserva de la Biosfera Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Río Colorado, ubicada en aguas del Golfo de California y en los municipios de Mexicali, Estado de Baja California, y de Puerto Peñasco y de San Luis Río Colorado, Estado de Sonora; North Gulf of California and Colorado River Delta Management Plan