MND Local: Miss Universe Mexico and what else is new in Los Cabos during the second half of 2026

The reigning Miss Universe is from Mexico. Fátima Bosch, a autochthonal of Tabasco, qualified for the “Super Bowl” of quality pageants by winning Miss Universe Mexico successful September 2025, and was past crowned with the South Sea pearl-adorned “Lumière de l’Infini” tiara arsenic the 74th Miss Universe successful Bangkok, Thailand, successful November of past year, beating retired Thai runner-up Praveenar Singh aft a highly publicized bullying occurrence by a pageant offcial.

Bosch’s reign won’t officially travel to an extremity until Nov. 26, 2026, erstwhile she crowns her successor successful San Juan, Puerto Rico. But successful the meantime, she’s helping to publicize this year’s Miss Universe Mexico, the contention from which the adjacent nationalist contender volition emerge. Los Cabos volition beryllium the authoritative tract of the Aug. 29 event, Bosch precocious announced connected the Mexican greeting tv show, “Sale el Sol,” with Corazón Cabo Resort & Spa connected Playa El Médano successful Cabo San Lucas named arsenic the host. 

Miss Universe Mexico and different upcoming events successful Cabo San Lucas 

Bosch was precocious successful Los Cabos to unveil the destination arsenic the big of the 2026 Miss Universe Mexico quality pageant. (Fátima Bosch/Instagram)

Cape cities San José del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas each crown pageant queens astatine their yearly fiestas tradicionales. But Miss Universe Mexico brings a nationalist spotlight to the region, and to Baja California Sur’s contestant this year: Selene Zazueta of La Paz, who besides represented the authorities astatine the Mexicana Universal pageant successful 2023. That, incidentally, was the past Mexicana Universal to enactment arsenic a qualifier for Miss Universe, arsenic a caller enactment — Miss Universe Mexico, backed by Raúl Rocha Cantú — was subsequently recognized.

Contestants representing each 32 states are expected to statesman arriving successful Los Cabos successful mid-August for filming and promotional shoots, arsenic good arsenic a preliminary contention featuring interviews and swimwear and evening gown assessments, earlier the existent lawsuit is broadcast unrecorded connected Aug. 29. For those incapable to attend, Mexico’s Imagen Televisión has the broadcast rights.

Miss Universe Mexico volition headdress a engaged period — particularly by “low season” standards successful Los Cabos — arsenic it follows intimately connected the heels of 2 different high-profile events: the 10th day variation of the ATP 250 Los Cabos Tennis Open, which is taking spot July 25 to Aug. 1; and the Bisbee’s East Cape Offshore (ECO), the archetypal of 3 yearly Bisbee’s sponsored sportfishing tournaments successful Los Cabos featuring cardinal dollar positive prize pools, with the astir lucrative of these, the Black and Blue and Los Cabos Offshore, pursuing successful October.

The ECO is simply a major lawsuit successful its ain right, however. The 2026 variation is scheduled for this week, July 28 to Aug. 1 successful Buenavista, with the tourney aiming to apical past year’s prize excavation of US $1.52 million. 

The adjacent edifice to unfastened successful Los Cabos

By the clip the Los Cabos Tennis Open and Bisbee’s East Cape Offshore wrapper up, a caller edifice volition besides person opened successful Los Cabos. That’s Amanvari from Aman, an ultra-luxury marque noted for its intimate and exclusive accommodations successful gorgeous earthy settings. Amanvari, which officially opens Aug. 1, qualifies connected each counts, with lone 18 casitas — each with a backstage heated excavation — disposable astatine Costa Palmas, the La Ribera-based improvement that’s besides location to the East Cape’s different luxury option: Four Seasons Resort Los Cabos astatine Costa Palmas. 

It’s the archetypal Aman spot ever to unfastened successful Mexico, and astatine US $3,000 per nighttime and up, instantly slots successful among the precise apical tier of section ultra-luxury resorts. Restaurants specializing successful Mexican, Italian and Japanese cuisine volition connection first-class eating experiences, portion the on-site spa specializes successful Mexico’s accepted sweat lodge-style temezcal therapies.

Amanvari opens this week, offering exclusive edifice accommodations connected Los Cabos’ East Cape. (Aman Resorts)

Other scheduled edifice openings successful 2026

When the St. Regis Los Cabos astatine Quivira was archetypal announced successful 2017, the estimated unfastened day for the edifice and residences task was aboriginal 2021. After the galore delays that person followed, immoderate forecasts astatine this constituent — specified arsenic the precocious 2026 timeline offered by the Los Cabos Tourism Board — indispensable beryllium taken with respective grains of salt. 

Soho House Los Cabos, the brand’s 2nd backstage club-style edifice successful Mexico pursuing the opening of a spot successful Mexico City successful 2023, is inactive expected to unfastened by November successful Cabo del Sol, with 15 disposable accommodations (in 12 casas and 3 casonas), positive on-site residences, a 50-meter swimming pool, spa, seafood edifice and formation club. Soho Club besides boasts a “200-meter backstage beach,” though this is simply a misnomer, since each beaches successful Mexico are, by law, public.

The 301-room edifice Grand Hyatt Los Cabos, Golf and Spa astatine Oleada connected the Pacific Coast of Cabo San Lucas, meanwhile, is besides estimating a precocious 2026 opening (in December), by which clip the development’s caller play people volition besides beryllium playable.

The adjacent play people to unfastened successful Los Cabos

The Ernie Els-designed Oleada Golf Links has opened for preview play and remains connected way to officially premiere successful November. It’s the archetypal people successful Mexico for “The Big Easy,” a four-time large champion who has present designed implicit a twelve worldwide, and according to him, easy the champion earthy site helium has had to enactment with. 

Mario Navarro, a Ciudad Juárez autochthonal who played collegiately astatine the University of Texas El Paso and who has worked for respective years successful Los Cabos astatine Querencia and Cabo del Sol, including helping to signifier the yearly Cabo Collegiate tournament, has been announced arsenic the play pro astatine Oleada.

Campo Alto and Legacy Club updates

Campo Alto astatine Querencia, the 2nd plan astatine the upscale residential assemblage from Tom Fazio, is besides scheduled to unfastened by the extremity of the year. Tiger Woods’ Legacy Club astatine Diamante, nevertheless — his 3rd task astatine the Cabo San Lucas development, pursuing El Cardonal, big of Los Cabos’ lone PGA-sponsored tournament, and the 12-hole Oasis Short Course — has seen its opening day pushed backmost to early 2027.

Campo Alto play people astatine Querencia is scheduled to unfastened by the extremity of 2026. (Querencia)

When these 3 open, the inventory of section play courses volition summation from 18 to 21. The Campo Alto and Legacy Club courses volition beryllium private, portion Oleada is expected to “initially let constricted extracurricular play,” per Forbes, earlier transitioning to a backstage people for residents and edifice guests (both those astatine Grand Hyatt Los Cabos, Golf and Spa, and the Conrad Los Cabos, anticipated to unfastened astatine Oleada successful 2027).

Chris Sands is simply a writer and exertion for Mexico News Daily, and the erstwhile Cabo San Lucas section adept for the USA Today question website 10 Best and writer of Fodor’s Los Cabos question guidebook. He has besides contributed to galore different websites and publications, including The San Diego Union-Tribune, Marriott Bonvoy Traveler, Forbes Travel Guide, Porthole Cruise and Travel, and Cabo Living.