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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.
Escondido River (Coahuila), tributary of the Rio Grande in Mexico; Escondido River (Nicaragua) Nueces River in Texas, originally named Río Escondido; Other uses.
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 ...
The Escondido River (Río Escondido in Spanish, sometimes called Arroyo Río Escondido [4]) is a stream in the state of Coahuila, Mexico, and is a tributary of the Rio Grande. The Escondido enters the Rio Grande ( Rio Bravo del Norte in Mexico) at Rio Grande river kilometer 794 kilometres (493 mi), about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) downriver from ...
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 .
Coffee is grown inland, and various types of fruit near the coast. Tourism is important in the coastal region, particularly in Puerto Escondido. [3] The town of Santa Catarina Juquila is known for the Santuario (Sanctuary) de Juquila, which houses a 30 cm statue of the Virgin Mary, which has been venerated since the 16th century. In 1633, it ...
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 ...
For many years a part of the Escondido Valley was known as Wolfskill Plains. During their 15-year ownership the size of the rancho was increased to 12,813 acres (51.85 km 2 ) by the purchase of a "squatter's" 160 acres (0.65 km 2 ).