Gulf of California

Gulf of California

1. a body of water that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland

   Synonym: Sea of Cortez

   • 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 19:

     On the California side a vast desert stretches westward, past the head of the Gulf of California, nearly to the shore of the Pacific.