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La Paz Foundation Festival in La Paz
The Fiestas de Fundacion de La Paz mark the founding anniversary of La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur, a Sea of Cortez city of roughly a quarter million people. Civic and cultural events commemorate the region's history, which traces to the first European landing nearby in 1533, led by Fortun Ximenez under Hernan Cortes.
La Paz, the capital of Baja California Sur and a city of roughly 250,000 people set on the shores of the Sea of Cortez, marks its founding each year with the Fiestas de Fundacion de La Paz, a civic and cultural celebration that reaches back to one of the earliest documented European encounters with the Baja California peninsula.