Tortuga Island, Baja California Sur

Isla Tortuga (Tortuga Island) is an island in the Gulf of California, created relatively recently in geologic terms by the volcanism associated with the East Pacific Rise.

It lies east-northeast of the city of Santa Rosalía, in Mulegé Municipality.

It has a surface area of 11.374 km2 (4.39 sq mi).

[1] The Tortuga Island rattlesnake (Crotalus tortugensis) is a species endemic to Isla Tortuga — it is found nowhere else.

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