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Puerto
Escondido Accommodation
Puerto
Escondido (literally:
"Hidden Port") is a small port and tourist center in themunicipality of San
Pedro Mixtepec Distrito 22 in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Prior to the 1930s, there was no real town here. The bay had been used
as a port to ship coffee intermittently, but there was no permanent
settlement here due to the lack of potable water. The name Puerto
Escondido has roots in a legend of a woman who escaped her captives and
hid here. The Nahuatl word
for this area was Zicatela, meaning “place of large thorns. Today,
it refers to the area’s most famous beach.
Today
Puerto Escondido is one of the most important tourist attractions on
the Oaxaca coast. It caters to a more downscale and eclectic clientele
than neighboring Huatulco,
mostly surfers, backpackers and Mexican families.The main
attraction is the beaches, from Zicatela Beach, which hosts major
surfing competitions to beaches with gentle waves. Just
south of the town is a large lagoon area popular for fishing and
birdwatching.
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Huatulco
Accommodations Huatulco (pronounced wah-TOOL-co)
("Bahías de Huatulco"), centered on the town of La
Crucecita, is a tourist development in Mexico.
It is located on the Pacific coast in the state of Oaxaca.
Huatulco's tourism industry is centered on its nine bays thus the name
Bahias de Huatulco but has since been unofficially shortened to simply
Huatulco. You will find a wide variety of accommodations from rooms for
rent, small economy hotels, luxury oceanfront villas, vacation
condominiums, bed and breakfasts, along with several luxury resorts
standing on or near the shores of Tangolunda Bay. The Camino Real
Zaashila, Quinta Real Huatulco, Las Brisas, Dreams Resort & Spa
(Formerly the Gala hotel) and the Barceló are examples of the most
popular larger resorts in the area. Huatulco is located in the state of Oaxaca where
the foothills of theSierra
Madre del Sur Mountains
meet the Pacific
Ocean approximately
500 km south of Acapulco,
Guerrero.[1] the
population is 50 000.
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Salina
Cruz Accommodations
Salina
Cruz is
a major seaport on the Pacific coast
of the Mexican
state of Oaxaca.
It is the state's third-largest city and is municipal seat of the municipality of
the same name. The city had a 2005 census population of 71,314 persons,
while its municipality, with an area of 113.55 km² (43.84 sq
mi)
had a population of 76,219, the state's fourth-largest municipality in
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