Mexico
Puerto Vallarta

Puerto Vallerta is a Mexican city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahia de Banderas. The 2005 census reported Puerto Vallarta's population as 177,830 making it the fifth-largest city in the state of Jalisco. The City of Puerto Vallarta is the government seat of the Municipality of Puerto Vallarta which comprises the city as well as population centers outside of the city extending from Boca de Tomatlán to the Nayarit border. The municipality's population in the 2005 census was 220,368.

The municipality has an area of 502.19 square miles (1,300.67 km˛). To the North it borders the SW part of the state of Nayarit. To the East it borders the municipality of Mascota and San Sebastián, and to the South it borders the municipalities of Talpa de Allende and Cabo Corriente.

Puerto Vallarta is named after Ignacio Vallarta, a former govenor of Jalisco. In Spanish Puerto Vallarta is often shortened to "Vallarta", while English speakers call the city P.V. for short. The city occasionally is spelled or pronounced as Porto Vallarta. A nice town with lots of activites going on in the area of the Zukalo.

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Activities take place by the Zukalo
You must visit this charming church too
Look around on the road along the shore
     
Houses Dia del Muertos
Sculptures made by sand on the beach

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