Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco, Mexico - UNESCO World Heritage Site
Place: Rock Paintings of Sierra de San Francisco, Mexico
Weather: Mainly sunny, 83/94F
Route: From San Diego 579 miles SSE on CA-94 E, I-8 E, Mexico 5, Mexico 1.
Significance: These large pictographs, some from as early as 5500 BCE, are found in remote caves in the mountains of central southern Baja California. Although the culture of the people who painted these works died out with European contact - they told the Europeans that in their oral history it was a race of giant humans who painted the rocks. The pictographs are in relatively good condition due to the dry weather and difficulty accessing the site. One must take a horse or donkey from the nearest town reach the pictographs.
One of the larger paintings showing humans and deer (from faculty.ucr.edu)
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