Isla Pond

Isla Pond
	Isla Pond
Geography
Location	Gulf of California
Coordinates	29°03′55.71″N113°05′15.04″W / 29.0654750°N 113.0875111°W
Highest elevation	20 m (70 ft)
Administration
	Mexico
State	Baja California
Demographics
Population	uninhabited

Last updated April 10, 2019

Isla Pond, is an island in the Gulf of California east of the Baja California Peninsula. The island is uninhabited and is part of the Mexicali Municipality.

Island Any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water

An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago, such as the Philippines.

The Gulf of California is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland. It is bordered by the states of Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa with a coastline of approximately 4,000 km (2,500 mi). Rivers which flow into the Gulf of California include the Colorado, Fuerte, Mayo, Sinaloa, Sonora, and the Yaqui. The gulf's surface area is about 160,000 km² (62,000 sq mi). Depths range from fording at the estuary near Yuma, Arizona, to in excess of 3,000 meters (9,800 ft) in the deepest parts.

The Baja California Peninsula is a peninsula in Northwestern Mexico. It separates the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California. The peninsula extends 1,247 km from Mexicali, Baja California in the north to Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur in the south. It ranges from 40 km at its narrowest to 320 km at its widest point and has approximately 3,000 km of coastline and approximately 65 islands. The total area of the Baja California Peninsula is 143,390 km² (55,360 sq mi).

Biology

Isla Pond has five species of reptile, including Aspidoscelis tigris (Tiger Whiptail), Crotalus ruber (Red Diamond Rattlesnake), Phyllodactylus nocticolus (Peninsular Leaf-toed Gecko), Sauromalus hispidus (Spiny Chuckwalla), and Uta stansburiana (Common Side-blotched Lizard).

Reptiles are tetrapod animals in the class Reptilia, comprising today's turtles, crocodilians, snakes, amphisbaenians, lizards, tuatara, and their extinct relatives. The study of these traditional reptile orders, historically combined with that of modern amphibians, is called herpetology.

Crotalus ruber is a venomous pit viper species found in southwestern California in the United States and Baja California in Mexico. Three subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here.

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References

http://herpatlas.sdnhm.org/places/overview/isla-pond/97/1/
Williams, J.H. (August 1996). Baja Boaters Guide II: Sea of Cortez. H.J. Williams Publications. pp. 216–217. ISBN 0-9616843-8-0.

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