Coromuel and Pichilingue

Abstract

Coromuel and Pichilingue, established as minor placenames near La Paz, Baja California, derive from English and Dutch pirates and privateers who careened their ships in coves on the uninhabited peninsula in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Pichilingue (from Dutch Vlissingen) is documented to the early eighteenth century, but Coromuel (from Cromwell) only to the mid-nineteeth century.