Ejido Eréndira

Ejido Eréndira is a small community located in the municipality of Ensenada cite web |url= http://mexico.pueblosamerica.com/i/ejido-erendira/ |title= Pueblos America Ejido Erendira |accessdate=2008-06-04 ] in the state of Baja California. It is 100 km south of the city of Ensenada. cite journal | last=Lazcano| first= Carlos| authorlink= | coauthors = | year =2008 | month=Apr | title=Las candidas playas de Erendira un universo paralelo para niños de corazon | journal=Mexico Desconocido | volume =374 | issue = | pages=32-35 | id = | url = | accessdate = | quote = ] It has a population of about 1,170 people most of whom make a living by fishing.

Another approximately 1,500 seasonal residents cite web |url=http://geologia.cicese.mx/sist_inf_geo/delegaciones/Erendira.htm |title= Delegacion 11: Eréndira |accessdate=2008-06-04 ] have second homes here.

However, in spite of this Erédira is an isolated and undeveloped beach. While it has areas with the rough, cold seas common on the Pacific side of Baja California, there are rocky outcroppings that form pools of seawater that is protected from the open ocean. Nearby there is an area that had been used by pre-historic peoples that gathered seasonally here to collect shellfish such as clams, sea snails, mussels and other. They left a layer of shells over eight meters thick that Canadian archeologists have dated back over 10,000 years.

The first Europeans arrived here in 1542 when viceroy Antonio de Mendoza send Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo.

Wildlife to be found in the areas, aside from shellfish, include migrating whales, dolphins, seals, pelicans, seagulls, sea anemones, limpets, sea snails and small fish.

Eréndira has very little in the way of tourist services but there are small grocery stores and a small hotel.

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