One can travel on Mexican Federal Highway 1 by vehicle from Ensenada to arrive in San Ignacio.

Slow but steady progress is being made to support the tourism industry and Pemex gas stations are now located in every major town through which Highway 1 travels on the way to San Ignacio, both from the North and from the South.

There are a variety of desert flora and fauna in the vicinity of San Ignacio, notably including the elephant tree, (Bursera microphylla).

[3] At San Ignacio, Baja California's arid Central Desert terrain gives way to a large grove of lush green date palms.

A large spring-fed pond and small river on the outskirts of town feeds into the central plaza and village next to the eighteenth-century Jesuit mission.