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Connecting Puerto Vallarta: all roads lead to paradise

From the origins, the coastal port was the most important place for economic activity. Simultaneously, new routes of communication by land and by air were opened.

History shows us how communication routes influenced our city to rise to the fore in the world. Its natural beauty could not remain only for the natives. Opening this paradise to the world was decidedly a coin toss that fell in our favor. The development of the city would be marked by the communication routes that paved the way for it to become what it is today: a port of international stature.

There is a very important date, cited by Don Carlos Munguia Fregoso, Chronicler of the City, in his valuable book "Historical Panorama of Puerto Vallarta and the Bay of Banderas" and which narrates as follows:

«For its inhabitants it was a reason for celebration and rejoicing that this place was opened to trade as a coastal port on July 14, 1885, with the official name of Las Peñas. On the 23rd of the same month and year, the Maritime Customs Section was established from San Blas, Nayarit. With this measure, it was intended to control smuggling, both of the metal from the mines that was shipped without the required documentation, and of the merchandise that was obtained from the ships that arrived at the port.

Conectando Puerto Vallarta, Cómo llegar a Puerto vallarta

Connecting Puerto Vallarta

From its founding (1851) until the end of the 1960s, Las Peñas-Puerto Vallarta had the sea as the most important means of communication for its economic development. Then it was still called "Puerto las Peñas". Wagons loaded with silver came down from the Sierra, and were then shipped for later distribution in different parts of the world. Thus, the mining and agricultural and maritime production were united, thus beginning the experiences and constant transculturation of the commercial and recreational journey.

Currently, this landing port has become one of the most important ports in all of Mexico, and stands out for its modern and complete facilities. In high season, the Integral Port Administration (API) receives up to 9 cruises in a week. Amazing, right?

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roads to paradise

The first paved highway was put into operation in 1969, to connect the north by land, with the cities of Compostela and Tepic, Nayarit. It was not until 1971 that the Puerto Vallarta-Barra de Navidad highway was enabled to the south. Uniting since then, the municipality of Tomatlán and Cabo Corrientes with the region. In this way, little by little we were adding a cultural heritage, derived from agricultural and fishing practices that we had in common with places close to ours.

a window to heaven

The airway was established at the beginning of the 1930s in the 20th century; and it was not until the early sixties when the international airport "Gustavo Diaz Ordaz". There very close to the vicinity of the estuary The salty. In November the first airline was received.

All these communication routes became a watershed for the development of the bay to take place at the top of its lungs, turning it today into a place of international stature, worthy of being remembered as the most beautiful in the Mexican Pacific.

Claudio Fabian Guevara