The plans call for a 462-acre tourist development that
includes a marina with capacity for over 500 boats and mega yachts of 200 feet,
two hotels, residential lots, condominiums, townhouses overlooking the marina
and the golf course and a championship golf course with 18 holes, among other
“amenities”; the company is owned by Resorts El Anhelo S.A. de CV, to which the
governor of Baja California, Francisco Vega de Lamadrid, bought into in March
2009 with an investment of 58 million pesos for 512,500 shares.
In the Environmental Impact Statement filed in Semarnat in
December 2010, it stated that the work would begin in January 2011 and end in
December 2018.
However, the federal government grants were not obtained
until December 2013, after Vega de Lamadrid assumed the governorship of Baja
California, and a month later, the Ministry of Communications and
Transportation approved the concession to operate a marina.
On February 18 this year (2015), the El Anhelo Resorts was
authorized change in land use for the main project.
The East Cape refers to an area along the Sea of Cortez
essentially starting about 75 miles south of La Paz, curving around toward the
bottom of the peninsula from Punta Pescadero (just north of Los Barriles/Buena
Vista), south to the eastern edge of the marina in San Jose del Cabo. It is
beautiful, quiet (for now) with miles of sandy beaches, fishing, diving, and is
also the location of the famed Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park. Cabo Pulmo is
the location of the oldest of only three coral reefs on the west coast of North
America. The reef, estimated to be 20,000 years old, is the northernmost coral
reef in the eastern Pacific.
El Anhelo Resort & Marina is planned for a parcel a few
miles south of Los Barriles/Buena Vista and north of Cabo Pulmo.
This is an ecologically sensitive area, and the project is
slated to have its own treatment plant, but some are questioning the supply of
water which has been estimated at 10 gallons per SECOND, and that may be a
problem when the aquifers are low.