According
to those who came first to this Puerto Escondido port, there was already a
narrow road that communicated with Salina Cruz, angel port, until arriving at
Acapulco. In those days, Puerto Escondido or hidden as they called it. Was one
of the most important ports, of the coffee plantation of the pluma region
transported the coffee in mules to the hidden one and from there they embarked
it in a small Mexican merchant. Later the ships of the United States began to
arrive and that is how the shipment of this aromatic product abroad was
regularized.
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Puerto
Escondido
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According
to a fantastic legend:
The
fierce pirate Andrés Drake, brother of the famous captain Francis Drake, once
anchored his sailboat in a place of calm waters near a small bay completely
uninhabited, near the mouth of the Colotepec River.
A
few weeks before, they had kidnapped a beautiful young Mixtec girl in the town
of Santa María Huatulco, and they had her prisoner under strict supervision. In
an oversight of her captors, the girl managed to escape from Captain Drake's
stateroom where she was held and Was a very good swimmer, threw herself into
the sea without hesitation, quickly managing to reach the beach to run after and
hide in the nearby forest jungles where the pirates could never find it.
Later
referring to the beautiful young Mixtec, the pirates instead of calling her
Josefa was his name, they mentioned it as "the hidden" and every time
he returned to the river Colotepec ordered to be sought, but for more efforts
they did, never found it so that to that calm bay they began to mention like
"bay the hidden one", same that later was transformed and to the date
is Puerto Escondido.
Located
on the Mexican Pacific coast and near Huatulco, Puerto Escondido is ready to
welcome you and show you why it is a world-renowned tourist place. It is ideal
for those seeking the excitement of the sea, surfing, parachuting and diving. A
picturesque, warm and charming destination; because its emerald waters are also
ideal for the novice surfing or the expert, which places it as the third place
in the world in waves for the practice of this sport.
In
1970 a total eclipse of the sun occurred, which would be seen in all its
magnitude in an area near Miahuatlán and Oaxaca, hundreds of people,
scientists, journalists, ordinary people crowded in this place to see the
astronomical event of the decade.
It
was the era of rock and roll and under the motto of "love and peace"
the young people of those times at the end of the eclipse learned that to the
south was paradise, a virgin beach, very large, without any constructions. They
arrived at Zipolite and in fact they found what they had told them, marveling
they would go to swim and to sunbathe, without clothes inaugurating thus the
first Mexican nudist beach; Were the so-called "hippies".
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| Zipolite Mazunte |
Freedom,
beauty, intimacy, respect and nature, characteristics of Zipolite that attract
thousands of people year after year. And invites us to know a culture where the
human body is a temple to see its beauty with a lot of respect where the morbid
disappears, complexes are erased from our minds from there depart different
ways to see the world in their colors and maximum body expression, Zipolite
paradise to the natural.
Today
it is visited by backpackers from around the world. Old hippies, younger
adventurers and locals live in harmony. The sounds of The Doors, Bob Marley,
Santana, Led Zeppelin and others can still be heard from some of the
restaurants. While at the beach, at night in front of the bonfires, the bongos
are heard and the chuvis are passed until at dawn.
It
is one of many coastal towns along the Pacific coast in the southern state of
Oaxaca. The strip between Puerto Escondido and Huatulco is known as the Riviera
of Oaxaca.
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| The Riviera Oaxaqueña |
Mazunte
Comes
from the Nahuatl word that means "I ask you please to spawn", other
stories say that here in this beach abounds crab of the same name, it can be
said that it was part of the basic diet of the population and that given so
much production I called the place Mazunte in the 1930s.
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Mazunte Turtle
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Here
you will find the Mexican Turtle Center, which has a Living Turtle Museum, as
well as an almost virgin beach, where you can observe the spawning of the
marine chelonians and swim with them.
You
can go to the area of the
Aquarium, here sea turtles are exhibited, sweet - aquaculture and terrestrial;
Are also the pools of observation of young and adult turtles; Breeding ponds;
Areas of natural incubation; Closed incubation halls and even a cactus garden.
*Guest Blog post by Victor Pastrana
www.tureceptivo.com
*Guest Blog post by Victor Pastrana www.tureceptivo.com
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