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  2. Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Escondido, California - Wikipedia

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    Escondido was primarily an agricultural community, growing muscat grapes initially. After a dam was built in 1894–1895 to form what is known today as Lake Wohlford, orange and lemon trees were planted in large numbers, as were olive and walnut trees. By the 1960s, avocados became the largest local crop. Since the 1970s, Escondido has lost ...

  4. Rancho Rincon del Diablo - Wikipedia

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    Rancho Rincon del Diablo was a 12,653-acre (51.20 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day San Diego County, California, given in 1843 to Juan Bautista Alvarado. [1] The name means "the devil's corner" or "the devil's lurking place".

  5. Puerto Escondido, Baja California Sur - Wikipedia

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    Puerto Escondido is a large natural harbor in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. It is located in the Loreto Municipality 28 km south of Loreto , on Federal Highway 1 on the western shore of the Gulf of California .

  6. Southern Mexico braces as Hurricane John, now category 2 ...

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    PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico (Reuters) -Hurricane John rapidly strengthened to a Category 2 storm on Monday and was expected to intensify further before hitting Mexico's southern Pacific coast in the ...

  7. Playa Zipolite - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. 500 years later, Mexico still struggles with 'uneasy truths ...

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    On the 500th anniversary of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in Mexico, on Aug. 13, 1521, the documentary "499" from Rodrigo Reyes tackles colonialism's shadow.

  9. Escondido - Wikipedia

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    Escondido, California, a city and valley near San ... Escondido River (Coahuila), tributary of the Rio Grande in Mexico; Escondido River (Nicaragua) Nueces River in ...