Long Description:Some quotes out of the Wikipedia entry:
"Cabo San Lucas (popularly known as just 'Cabo') is a small city
at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula...As of the
2005 census, the population was 56,811 people. It is the largest
community in Los Cabos municipality, and the second-largest in Baja
California Sur, after La Paz."
"Cabo San Lucas is quickly becoming a high-end holiday
destination with a number of resorts and timeshare clubs appearing
along the coast between San Lucas and San José del Cabo."
"According to Hatsutaro's narrative contained in the book Kaigai
Ibun, when he arrived to Cabo San Lucas, on May 1842, this place
consisted of only two houses and about twenty inhabitants. However,
American authors like Henry Edwards and J. Ross Browne claim that
Cabo San Lucas' founder was an Englishman named Thomas Ritchie, aka
Old Tom Ritchie. J. Ross Browne says that the Ricthie arrived to
Cabo around 1828, while Henry Edwards says that he died around
October 1874. On the web check Tres Semanas en Mazatlán."
"At the beginning of the 20th century a fishing village began to
develop in that area. In 1917, an American company built a floating
platform to catch tuna, and ten years later founded the Compañía de
Productos Marinos, S.A., which gave rise to the village."
"The warmth of the waters at Cabo San Lucas, the beauty of its
beaches, the abundance of sport fish, and other qualities,
motivated a great number of both foreign and Mexican vacationers to
spend their vacations in large-scale tourist developments there,
starting from 1974 when the Mexican government created the
infrastructure to turn Cabo San Lucas into one of the most
attractive centers for tourism in Mexico."
"Cabo San Lucas has become an important vacation and spa
destination, with a great variety of sites of interest, and
timeshares that have been built on the coast between San Lucas and
San José del Cabo. The distinctive El Arco de Cabo San Lucas is a
local landmark. Cabo San Lucas has the largest Marlin tournament in
the world. In the winter, pods of whales can be observed in the
ocean. They bear their calves in the warm waters there...The town
is also a popular port of call for many cruise ships."
"In 1990, rocker Sammy Hagar of Van Halen, opened a nightclub
and restaurant, The Cabo Wabo Cantina with the three other members
of Van Halen. In the mid-nineties he bought out the other owners,
his bandmates, and assumed complete ownership of the club. To this
day it is one of the most popular attractions in Cabo San Lucas. He
is known to play live at the club at least once a year with his
band, The Wabos on his birthday, October 13th, and shows often
include many famous guests and friends from the music industry.
Other clubs in Cabo include El Squid Roe, The Zoo, Gigglin Marlin,
NoWhere Bar, Tini bar, and The Jungle Bar."
"Cabo San Lucas' raucous party atmosphere and San Jose’s
laid-back colonial style are bridged by a golf course-and
resort-studded Tourist Corridor that stretches between the twin
towns in 20 miles of pristine white sand beaches and craggy
coves."