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  • Ethan and Liana Welty pass the chapel welcoming visitors to San Francisco de la Sierra, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 30, 2009.
  • INAH (Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia) custodian Enrique Arce sits at his home in San Francisco de la Sierra, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 30, 2009. All trips to the cave painting sites in the area, designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site, must be arranged through Arce.
  • Liana Welty follows local guide Francisco Arce through Santa Teresa Canyon to rock painting sites in the Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
  • Liana Welty and guide Francisco Arce visit Cueva La Pintada in the Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur, Mexico. La Pintada is the largest of the rock painting sites in the "Great Mural" region of central Baja (collectively designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site).
  • Cueva Boca de San Julio - a smaller of the painting sites in the "Great Mural" region in the Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
  • Ethan Welty visits the Cueva de La Flechas (Cave of the Arrows) rock painting site in the Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
  • Large red-and-black human figures wearing elaborate headdresses dominate the mural at Cueva de La Flechas (Cave of the Arrows) in the Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur, Mexico. The cave painting site gets its name from two human figures pierced with arrows. The region, rich in pictograph and petroglyph sites, was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993.
  • Top view of cactus plant growing in the Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 27, 2009.
  • A young boy, sitting on the ground near a donkey, mends his lasso at Rancho Santa Teresa, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 30, 2009.
  • Children help with the management and milking of the family goat herd in San Francisco de la Sierra, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 27, 2009.
  • A woman carries a bucket filled with fresh goat's milk as others gather the herd in San Francisco de la Sierra, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 31, 2009. Making goat cheese is the primary activity and source of income for the ranches in the area.
  • Francisco Arce, an experienced guide to the region's cave paintings and archeological sites, sits with his family at his home in San Francisco de la Sierra, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 30, 2009. His wife holds their baby son born with blue eyes, a sign of mixed European ancestry.
  • Clothes hang to dry outside at sunset in a clearing in San Francisco de la Sierra, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 30, 2009.
  • A woman passes young cheese curds, prepared that morning from fresh goat's milk, through a strainer to remove excess liquid in San Francisco de la Sierra, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 31, 2009.
  • Blocks of goat cheese mature under a cloth screen tent in San Francisco de la Sierra, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 31, 2009.
  • A shopkeeper weighs the block of goat cheese she is buying for her corner store at Leche Caracol dairy company employee housing outside Vizcaino, Baja California Sur, Mexico on January 31, 2009. "Pepe" drives down from San Francisco de la Sierra every week to supply goat cheese to the shops in the valley.
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