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I don’t think the Sea of Cortez comes close to the evaporative load of the Gulf. Gulf moisture is swept west at low latitudes, then gets picked up and poured into the space east of the Sierra by our prevailing westerlies.The Gulf of California may be referred to by several alternate names, including; the Sea of Cortez or Sea of Cortés, for Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés, and the Vermilion Sea. The gulf is known throughout Latin America in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés, Mar Bermejo and Golfo de California.
Or so I read when I was ten.
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