La Ventana · El Sargento
The town guide
Two small towns on one bay. Here is where to eat, where to launch, where the good coffee is, and which dirt road is worth the drive. The working list of what we send guests to.
On the water now
8knotsfrom NE
Gusting 8 kn · Too light to ride
Air
33°C91°F
Clear
Today
11kn
34°C · Overcast
Sat
15kn
36°C · Overcast
Sun
13kn
36°C · Drizzle
Mon
25kn
34°C · Drizzle
Tue
22kn
34°C · Drizzle
Peak wind for each day, in knots, at the bay. Updated every fifteen minutes. Today's peak: 11 kn in the gusts.
Read first
Three long pieces on the things people ask about before they book — the wind, the orcas and the mobula season.
Field guide · Wind
Kiting in La Ventana, explained
The season, the thermal-and-venturi reason the bay overdelivers, all seven launches north to south, and three practical things the magazine spreads leave out.
8 min read
Field guide · Sea
Orcas in La Ventana, explained
Fewer than two hundred orcas in the entire Sea of Cortez. The Moctezuma pod, the real season, and the first management plan of its kind in Mexico.
6 min read
Field guide · Sea
Mobula rays in La Ventana, explained
The largest documented aggregations of Munk's devil ray anywhere on Earth happen in the channel off this town, for about six weeks. Most travellers miss it by a month.
7 min read
Every place in the guide. Open a category to narrow the map.
These places also show as pins when you search for somewhere to stay, so you can see what a house is near.
Why La Ventana
Made for adventure, year-round.
Wind from October through May. Big whales in winter, orcas through the summer. Mobula aggregations in early summer that you can swim through. Yellowtail, roosterfish, dorado, marlin and tuna across the rotating warm months. Sierra de la Laguna trails when it's cool. Jacques Cousteau called the Sea of Cortez “the world’s aquarium.”
Rough guides, not guarantees — the bay keeps its own diary. Ask Diana what a particular week usually looks like.