Zihuatanejo or Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, is that the fourth-largest town within the Mexican state of Guerrero. Politically the town belongs to the municipality of Zihuatanejo DE Azueta within the western a part of Guerrero, however each area unit ordinarily brought up as Zihuatanejo. It’s on the coast, concerning 240 metric linear unit (150 miles) northwest of port, and belongs to a neighborhood of the Mexican coast called the Costa Grande. This city has been developed as a holidaymaker attraction beside the trendy holidaymaker resort of Ixtapa, 5 km away. However, Zihuatanejo has unbroken its ancient city feel. The city is found on a well-protected bay that is fashionable non-public boat homeowners throughout the winter months.
There area unit 2 attainable origins for the name Zihuatanejo. The primary would be from P’urhépecha language which means “water of the yellow mountain” and also the second would be from Nahuatl (Cihuatlán) which means “place of girls.” Cihuatlán or “place of women” refers to the western paradise of the Nahuatl universe, the house of the “goddess girls.” per tradition, these girls arose within the afternoon to steer the sun at time of day to the realm of the dead, Mictlan, to offer a dim lightweight to the dead. “De Azueta” is in honor of José Azueta WHO died fighting a U.S. Incursion into the country in port in 1914.
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