About Casa Sirena - Casa Sirena

SUSTAINABLITY IS THE GRATEST LUXURY.

Welcome to Casa Sirena

We care a lot about our environment and that’s why we designed Casa Sirena with the following environmentally friendly features:

Non-Structural Walls are all made onsite with Adobe Brick
We installed a Grey Water System to reuse the water for irrigation
We installed a large Solar Hot Water Heater (with an Instant HW backup)
Food Waste Compost pile for the garden
Energy Efficient Appliances
Low Water Native Plant Landscaping
Only Biodegradable Soaps and Cleaners are used in the house
We are adding a Solar Electric array soon

You can’t buy love, but you can rescue it!

Helping the Pups

For every booking with dogs, we give $10 per day to Baja Pet Rescue. While you are visiting La Ventana, we hope that you will consider helping out the The Baja Pet Rescue by volunteering some of your time.

If you are looking to adopt a dog, Baja dogs are the Best. Please take a look at the pups that are up for adoptions at: https://www.bajapetrescue.com/adoptable_dogs

A rich heritage in the heart of California Baja Sur

History of the La Ventana

La Ventana is a small fishing village on the shore of La Ventana Bay south of La Paz on the eastern side of the Baja California peninsula in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. The village was founded in the early 1940s by the La Paz pearl diver Salome Leon. When pearl diving became unprofitable, Salome brought his family over the mountains from La Paz to La Ventana Bay to found the village. Many of his descendants continue to live, fish, and work in the village.

The area was first inhabited by Neolithic hunter-gatherers at least 10,000 years ago who left traces of their existence in the form of rock paintings near the city and throughout the Baja California Peninsula. Hernán Cortés sailed into Bahía de La Paz on May 3, 1535. He attempted to start a colony but abandoned his efforts after several years due to logistical problems.^[3] Sebastián Vizcaíno arrived in 1596 as part of a pearl-fishing expedition on the western shore of the Gulf of California. He sailed on to La Paz after attempts to pacify the area were rebuffed. The first permanent settlement in Baja California was not formed until 1695 further north in Loreto.

Name origin

La Ventana (English “The Window”) is named for the ‘window’ to the Gulf of California between nearby Isla Cerralvo and Punta Arena, which contrasted with the closed-in La Paz Bay from which the first inhabitants relocated.