Crossword clues for acapulco
acapulco
- Place with many dives in Mexico
- Where to see the La Quebrada cliff divers
- Vacation destination in Guerrero, Mexico
- Mexican seaport known for its cliff divers
- Mexican Riviera resort
- Mexican Riviera city
- Mexican resort city
- Mexican port
- Mexican Pacific seaside resort
- Mexican mecca
- Home of La Quebrada's cliff divers
- Cliff-diving mecca
- Mexican cruise port
- Norwegian Star port of call
- A port and fashionable resort city on southern Mexico's Pacific coast
- Known for beaches and water sports (including cliff diving)
- Mexican resort port
- Mexican Pacific resort
- Coal processed outside top university in Mexican city
- Area with clubs a couple snubbed possibly in Mexican resort
- A top university lecturer coming over, heads for Mexican city
- A top mobster kidnaps even members of public in Pacific resort
- Resort town on the Pacific
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in full, Acapulco de Juarez, resort town in western Mexico, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) acapulco "place of the large canes," from aca(tl) "cane (plant)" + -pul "large" + -co "place." Acapulco gold as the name of a local grade of potent marijuana is attested from 1965.
Wiktionary
n. A port and city on the west coast of Mexico, in the state of Guerrero.
Wikipedia
Acapulco de Juárez , commonly called Acapulco, is a city, municipality and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico's history. It is a port of call for shipping and cruise lines running between Panama and San Francisco, California, United States. The city of Acapulco is the largest in the state, far larger than the state capital Chilpancingo. Acapulco is also Mexico's largest beach and balneario resort city.
The city is best known as one of Mexico's oldest and most well-known beach resorts, which came into prominence in the 1950s as a getaway for Hollywood stars and millionaires. Acapulco is still famous and still attracts many tourists, although most are now from Mexico itself. The resort area is divided into two: The north end of the bay is the "traditional" area, where the famous in the mid-20th century vacationed, and the south end is dominated by newer luxury high-rise hotels.
The name "Acapulco" comes from Nahuatl language Aca-pōl-co, and means "where the reeds were destroyed or washed away". The "de Juárez" was added to the official name in 1885 to honor Benito Juárez, former President of Mexico (1806–1872). The seal for the city shows broken reeds or cane. The island and municipality of Capul, in the Philippines, derives its name from Acapulco; Capul was the western end of the trans-Pacific sailing route from Acapulco to what was then a Spanish colony.
Acapulco is a city and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Acapulco may refer to:
Acapulco is an American half-hour adventure series that aired on NBC in 1961. It is notable for providing Telly Savalas ( Kojak) with his first regularly recurring role in a television series.
Acapulco de Juárez is one of the 81 municipalities of Guerrero, in south-western Mexico. The municipal seat lies at Acapulco. The municipality covers an area of 1921.5 km².
As of 2005, the municipality had a total population of 717,766.
Acapulco is the debut album by Swedish singer and songwriter Therese Grankvist. It was released in Sweden on record label Tretiak in 2003, being Therese's first album not released under the Drömhus alias.
Acapulco is a 1952 Mexican romantic comedy film directed by Emilio Fernández and starring Elsa Aguirre, Armando Calvo and Miguel Torruco.
Usage examples of "acapulco".
His fame spread as far as Rome, and soon Jesuits began to arrive in Manila from Goa in the west and Acapulco in the east, and to request him by name.
It was told me by one Alfonso, who was first mate aboard a galleon that left Manila for Acapulco some years ago.
The other was to arrive in Acapulco at about the same time as the Galleon, so that certain officers aboard that ship could smooth the way for them.
Pacific and grease the path for you in Acapulco in return for a share of your profits.
Now I will ask you a question that should have a simple answer: When we get to Acapulco, will you be in the Wet or the Dry Group?
Only at the great ports of the King of Spain, such as Acapulco, Panama, and Lima, have you any hope of trading your quicksilver for what you so desperately need.
So they passed Acapulco by, with no sense of regret, as every building there was either a mud hovel or a monastery, and a few hours later dropped anchor before Port Marques.
Only when the Manila Galleon or the Lima treasure-fleet was expected did white men swarm down out of the mountains and kick out the squatters and turn Acapulco into a semblance of a real city.
Vrej was posed insouciantly on a new foremast, and explained the delay by informing them that Acapulco was that rarest of places, an important trade-port without a single Armenian, and so he had been forced to deal with slower minds.
Port Marques, Edmund de Ath came out alone one morning from Acapulco, bearing sealed letters from the Viceroy.
Extortion from the sailors by the royal officials at Acapulco is strictly forbidden.
And inasmuch as the duties are paid in Acapulco on those who are sold there, because of the inconvenience of paying them in Manila, we order that the president and auditors of our royal Audiencia of Filipinas provide that it be so observed and executed.
Audiencia of Manila rate the amount of what the mates on the ships shall exact in the port of Acapulco for the guard of boxes, barrels, and other articles of merchandise.
Callao and Guayaquil to Nicaragua and Guatemala, under pretext of going for pitch and other things, and then often go from there to the port of Acapulco to lade Chinese cloth, in return for a great sum of silver which they carry, practicing many efforts and frauds.
And inasmuch as we are informed that that is inconvenient, we order that the ships be prepared with all that is necessary by December, so that at the end of that month, they may leave the said port of Acapulco, so that they may be able to arrive at the said islands, at the latest, some time in March.