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The name "Puerto Escondido" had roots in the legend of a woman who escaped her captors and hid here. The Nahuatl word for this area was Zicatela, meaning “place of large thorns". [2] Today, it refers to the area's most famous beach. [3] Puerto Escondido is one of the most important tourist attractions on the Oaxacan coast.
Playa Zipolite is a beach community located in San Pedro Pochutla municipality on the southern coast of Oaxaca state in Mexico between Huatulco and Puerto Escondido. Zipolite is best known as being Mexico's first and only legal public nude beach [1] and for retaining much of the hippie culture that made it notable in the 1970s. The beach is ...
The Laguna de Manialtepec is a coastal lagoon about 18 km west of Puerto Escondido in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. The name comes from Náhuatl “manial” (spring) and “tepec” (Hill), meaning (Hill where water is born). [1] Access to the lagoon by car is via Federal Highway 200 or by boat from Puerto Escondido.
Puerto Escondido. Historically the region has been tied culturally and economically with the Costa Chica in the state of Guerrero and with Acapulco in particular, rather than with the city of Oaxaca. [2] The reasons are that the coasts of Oaxaca and Guerrero states share a common history, and the Federal Highway 200 connects the coasts of both ...
Another important tourist area is the coast, which has the major resort of Huatulco and sandy beaches of Puerto Escondido, Puerto Ángel, Zipolite, Bahia de Tembo, and Mazunte. [11] Oaxaca is also one of Mexico's most biologically diverse states, ranking in the top three, along with Chiapas and Veracruz , for numbers of reptiles, amphibians ...
San Agustinillo is a small fishing village and beach in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. [1] It is located in the municipality of Santa María Tonameca just east of the coastal communities of Mazunte and La Ventanilla.
The Lagunas de Chacahuan National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Lagunas de Chacahua), created in 1937, [2] is a national park located in the Municipality of Villa de Tututepec de Melchor Ocampo in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, about 54 km west of Puerto Escondido, near a village called Zapotalito. It can be reached via Federal Highway 200 or by ...
[1] [2] The La Ventanilla area consists of a long, unbroken stretch of undeveloped beach and a lagoon wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the Sierra Madre del Sur. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In the 1990s, the area was nothing more than a coconut plantation with three families living there, and did not have electricity until 1999. [ 5 ]