Ensenada Blanca and the village of Ligui are about 20 miles south of the Loreto airport, at the point where Highway One leaves the coastline and heads westward, climbing steeply for several miles and then continuing westward toward the commercial and agricultural towns of Insurgentes and Constitucion. Ligui is home to a number of families, part of an ejido (similar in some ways to an American Indian reservation) whose members make their living on the water, using outboard-powered boats called pangas for fishing and touring of guests. Ensenada Blanca is a sizeable cove, around a mile long, at the south end of which the Villas Group has just finished and opened the first phase of its Villas del Palmar Loreto hotel/timeshare resort. Villas Group is now completeing its access road direct from Highway One, and plans three or four additional large installations on the cove, to be built over the next several years, and will be marketing lots for individual home construction.
Farther south along the coast are small villages at San Cosme and Agua Verde – similar to Ligui in dependence on the Sea of Cortez, but more isolated. These beautiful locations are most easily reached by boat from Ligui – but adventuresome drivers in vehicles with reasonable ground clearance can reach both villages via a 40 kilometer dirt road maintained by the ejido that leaves Highway One about 20 minutes west of Ligui.