Bahia de Los Angeles is a known shelling place on the east coast of the Baja peninsula.
On Apr 23, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Bert Bartleson wrote:

> Hi James, I looked at Myra Keen's list of place names.  She lists Bahia de
> Los Angeles but not in Jalisco.  It's on the east Coast of Baja California
> at location 23 [about half way down], page 923.  I have had lots of similar
> problems with older place names from Mexico on shells collected in the
> 1960's and 1970's. Good luck!  No listing for Saladita Bay near Guaymas in
> Keen.  You might try a Google Earth place name search?  Bert
>
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> James Cheshire
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> Subject: [CONCH-L] locality problem
>
> I just received a bunch of shells from an old collection, and there
> are a couple of localities that I haven't been able to verify:
>
> Bahia de Los Angeles, Jalisco, Mexico
>
> Saladita Bay, Guaymas, Mexico
>
> There are many hits for the latter locality in the ANSP collection
> search, but only one for the former (there are 7 hits if I enter Los
> Angeles Bay).
>
> Either I haven't searched hard enough, or somebody made some
> geographic errors! Any ideas?
>
> James
>
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