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Acapulco

 
Cliff diver

Acapulco is the biggest and most dazzling beach tourist center of Mexico. Its inhabitants assure that it offers more variety, emotion, fun and Mexican taste than any other tourist center of the country or the world. Acapulco may be described as an important altitude and coastal port, located in the shore of the Pacific Ocean, in the west part of the natural bay of Acapulco. The city is the municipal capital, and it is located at 16º 50' North Latitude and 99º 54' West Longitude.

Privileged tourist destination, it faces the Pacific Ocean, with splendid bays, having natural inlets, stiff cliffs and beautiful and varied beaches with different wave breakings, spotted with luxuriant palms, including a tropical beach.

The bay measures 5 kilometers from east to west, and three kilometers from north the south; it has a depth of 45 to 60 meters. The climate is wet-hot, with rains in summer and part of fall; the prevailing vegetation is low jungle.

Connected by air, land and seaways coming from all over the world, it also has a swift internal transportation. Its hotel infrastructure copes with the ever-growing demand, with a planned integral growth, at the level of the best ones of the world.

In the gastronomical aspect, it has a great variety of cuisines and specialties, ranging from the classics 'whims' to the most demanding gourmet. Its vibrant and agitated nightlife girdles around its exciting discos and nightclubs, internationally famed.

Acapulco has two seasons, the summer season, almost always starting after Holy Week until the 20th of December, when hotel and fun prices are a bit cheaper, and the winter season, starting in December and finishing at the beginning of the Holy Week, when the hotel prices go up, due to the demand.

 

Location
State of Guerrero, 400 km to the south of Mexico City.
When to go
All year round.
Attractions
Historical Museum of Acapulco (San Diego Fort), 'La Quebrada', Papagayo Park, Culture House, Magic Sea World, beaches 'Hornitos', 'La Angosta', 'Caleta' and Caletilla'.
How to get there
By airplane, Acapulco has an international airport. By bus, from the North and South Terminal of Mexico City. By car, from Mexico City by the highway 'del Sol'.
Activities
Photography, swimming, walking, diving, swimming with dolphins, sailing, fishing, snorkeling.
Services
Hotels, restaurants, souvenir stores, car rental, discos, amusement park.
Surroundings
'Pie de la Cuesta', Coyuca Lagoon.

'La Quebrada' (The Cliff)

Acapulco Magico Park


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