Where is Santa Maria Bay, Sinaloa?
Sinaloa, one of the 32 states of Mexico, is located on the northwest coast long the southern Gulf of California. To the north is the state of Sonora (which borders the U.S.) and to the south is Nayarit. On the east are the states of Durango and Chihuahua with the Sierra Madre Mountains. Sinaloa is famous for it’s natural beauty with tropical beaches, rain forests, and great coastal wetlands with large lagoons and mangroves. If you’ve enjoyed fresh mangoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, or sweet peppers in the winter they may have come from Sinaloa! What are the wetlands like at Santa Maria Bay? Santa Maria Bay, recognized as one of the country’s most important wetlands by the government of Mexico, is a large coastal lagoon in western Sinaloa made up of dense flooded mangrove forests and extensive open tidal mud flats. The Bay provides important wetland habitats for millions of birds, including ducks, pelicans, herons, gulls, terns, and, of course, shorebirds by the thousands. Also, there are ap
