Photographer: Giovanni Simeone
Code: PBC490246
In the heart of the Baja California peninsula, an enthralling and surreal landscape unfolds: the Desierto de Catavina. This desert, characterized by its arid and wild beauty, presents a unique spectacle with its stretches of rocky and barren terrain, interspersed with extraordinary rock formations. The intense azure sky contrasts with the barren earth, creating a scene of surprising chromaticity.
The scarcity of rainfall has eroded very little of the landscape here, and there is a lack of clayey and organic soil covers that elsewhere cloak the oldest rocks. It is for this reason that the pink landscape of the granite desert of Cataviña has remained largely unchanged from when the mighty Tyrannosaurs crossed it in search of water and carrion. The low population growth, sparse distribution of humans in the area with minimal urbanization, lack of deforestation and exploitation of the few natural resources, limited agriculture, and protection of the sea have allowed its stunning and delicate ecosystems to remain untouched.
