La Ventana is a small Mexican fishing village located on the Sea of Cortez just 35 minutes southeast of La Paz, Baja California, Mexico. Recently declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, the Sea of Cortez (also known as the Gulf of Baja California) offers intense ocean-blue scenery and the stark contrast of arid desert landscapes. So abundant is the region’ s natural beauty that the explorer Jacques Cousteau referred to it as the “world’s aquarium.”