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Puerto Escondido

Mexico · Oaxaca

Puerto Escondido is a Mexican city-port and tourist center in the municipality of San Pedro Mixtepec Distrito 22 in the state of Oaxaca. Prior to the 1930s, there was no town. The bay had been used as a port intermittently to ship coffee, but there was no permanent settlement due to the lack of potable water. The name "Puerto Escondido" had roots in the legend of a woman who escaped her captors and hid there. The Nahuatl word for this area was Zicatela, meaning "place of large thorns". Today, it refers to the area's most famous beach.

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Local time: UTC-6 · Same time as Costa Rica
Region: Oaxaca
Main language: Spanish
On the map: 15.87° N, 97.08° W

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