Acapulco (formally: Acapulco de Juárez) is a city and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 300 km (190 miles) SSW of Mexico City, at 16°85′ N 99°92′ W. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay, almost land-locked, easy of access, and with so secure an anchorage that vessels can safely lie alongside the rocks that fringe the shore. It is the best harbour on the Pacific coast of Mexico, and it is a port of call for shipping lines running between Panama and San Francisco, California, USA. In 2003 the estimated population was 638,000 people.
The town is built on a narrow strip of low land, scarcely half a mile wide, between the shore line and the lofty mountains that encircle the bay. There is great natural beauty in the surroundings, but the mountains render the town difficult of access from the interior – or at at least did, until the construction of a 2-km-long tunnel to the waterfront from the hinterland in the 1990s. An earlier effort to admit the cooling sea breezes by cutting through the mountains a passage called the Abra de San Nicolas had some beneficial effect.
Chilpancingo (formally: Chilpancingo de los Bravos) is a city in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, located at 17° 33′ 0″ N 99° 30′ 0″ W. It is the capital of Guerrero. In 2003 the estimated population of Chilpancingo was 152,600.
It is crossed by Federal Highway 95 as it crosses the state towards Acapulco from Mexico City.
MEXICO CITY – An Aviacsa flight from Las Vegas to Mexico's capital was diverted to the Pacific Coast city of Acapulco where it made an emergency landing, authorities said Friday. No one was injured.
One of the tires on the landing gear of the Boeing 727 exploded while Flight 893 was heading to Mexico City late Thursday, according to a statement released by Aviacsa.
The pilot continued into airspace over the capital's Benito Juarez International Airport, but, fearing that heavy rains in the area would leave runways too slick to use with a punctured tire, authorities sent the flight to
Cuilapan de Guerrero: Oaxaca City
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Fireworks explosion kills 7 and injures 4 in Mexico
Fireworks stored at a building that also illicitly sold gasoline exploded Saturday, killing seven people and injuring four, a local official said.
The building also housed video game machines, and five of the dead were children who frequented the video parlor on weekends, local authorities said.
The blast occurred in the tiny hamlet of Tlacotepec, high in the mountains of southern Guerrero state, about 75 miles north of Acapulco, Ayala Mata said.
Blood vessel problem sends Chirac to hospital
Paris -- French President Jacques Chirac has been hospitalized after suffering a blood vessel problem in
Shotover Jet Acapulco: Acapulco
Centro Cultural de Acapulco: Acapulco
Crafts
Artesania in Mexico is an amalgam of ancient and modern design. The stronger influence, however, is undoubtedly the traditional popular art forms of indigenous communities the length and breadth of the country which pour into colonial towns such as Oaxaca, San Cristobal, Patzcuaro,and Uruapan.These are convenient market centres for seeing the superb any visit to Mexico uibiuodi, rarzcuaro,ana uruapan. I hese are convenient market centres for seeing the superb range of products from functional pots to scary masks hanging over delicately embroidered robes and gleaming lacquered chests.
Textiles
Weaving and textile design go back a long way
NAFTA environmental commission finds Mexico slow to respond to illicit logging
Mexican authorities were sometimes slow to respond to complaints by Indians about illegal logging on their lands, and enforcement was hampered by mountainous terrain, language barriers and limited personnel, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation found in a report issued Monday.
The CEC, set up under the North American Free Trade Agreement – which includes Mexico, the United States and Canada – issued the report in response to Indians' complaints that loggers were clear-cutting pine forests in northern Mexico.
It was the latest chapter in a quarter-century battle that has seen
Old Acapulco: Acapulco
