"Manuela"

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Species: Olive Ridley
Life Stage: Adult
Gender: Female
Release Date: 1997-09-03 00:00:00
Release Location: Punta San Cristobal, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Last Location: 1998-02-16 15:15:44

Background

Manuela is an adult female olive ridley, or Pacific ridley turtle. She nested on September 3rd, 1997 on Playa Migrino near Punta San Cristobal, Baja California Sur, Mexico. She is the first olive ridely traced in Baja California. She traveled more than 3,000 kilometers as she made her way north past Bahia Magdalena, across the Gulf of Ulloa to Punta Abreojos. She then made a long foray away from shore into the 3,000m + waters of the eastern Pacific.

Olive ridelys nest primarily in the cape region of the Baja California Peninsula, but are known to nest well up into the Gulf of California and as far north as Isla Magdalena on the Pacific coast of the peninsula.