The town is located about 110 miles from San Quintin. Importance to Baja travelers, this is the only reliable source of gasoline, for more than a hundred miles, north or south. This is a small town with one hotel, a mechanic, a couple of restaurants, and a closed Pemex station. The Hotel La Pinta is one in a successful chain of hotels stretching through the peninsula, owned by the government. The hotel has a pool, a recreation room and a restaurant.
Rooms are very clean, and well kept.
The desert is also home to many endemic non-cactus species, including two almost identical looking but unrelated versions of the elephant tree, and the cirio, or boojum. Baja's signature contribution to the world is its unusual flora. The Catavina Boulder Field contributes to this strange landscape. Its hills and valleys of smooth, rounded rocks, ranging in size from marbles to boulders the size of buildings. In fact, the rocks were shaped by the wind, blowing like airborne sandpaper across the desert for millions of years.