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The Best Attractions In Puerto Angel

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Puerto Ángel is a small coastal town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca located in the municipality of San Pedro Pochutla. It, along with San Agustinillo and Playa Zipolite are known as the Riviera Oaxaqueña. It is located 9 km south of city of Pochutla approximately 50 kilometers west of Huatulco and 80 kilometers east of Puerto Escondido. Despite tourism development since the 1960s, the town is still mostly a fishing village, located on a small bay surrounded by rocky hills that lead into the Sierra Madre del Sur. It was founded in the mid 19th century as a port for the region’s coffee and lumber industries but since then other means of shipping thes...
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The Best Attractions In Puerto Angel

  • 1. Zipolite Puerto Angel
    Playa Zipolite is a beach community located in San Pedro Pochutla municipality on the southern coast of Oaxaca state in Mexico between Huatulco and Puerto Escondido. Zipolite is best known as being Mexico’s first and only legal public nude beach and for retaining much of the hippie culture that made it notable in the 1970s. The origin of the name Zipolite has been lost over time. Translated from Zapotec, Zipolite means beach of the dead. Some versions has that referring to dangerous underwater currents just offshore and locals say the Zapotecs offered the bodies of their dead to this sea and the consequence for why the beach was unoccupied until alternative foreigners started arriving here in 1969. Other versions has it coming from the Nahuatl word sipolitlan or zipotli, meaning bumpy pl...
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  • 3. Punta Cometa Mazunte
    Punta Cometa is a peninsula on the Pacific Coast of Mexico.
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  • 5. Playa Mazunte Mazunte
    Playa Zipolite is a beach community located in San Pedro Pochutla municipality on the southern coast of Oaxaca state in Mexico between Huatulco and Puerto Escondido. Zipolite is best known as being Mexico’s first and only legal public nude beach and for retaining much of the hippie culture that made it notable in the 1970s. The origin of the name Zipolite has been lost over time. Translated from Zapotec, Zipolite means beach of the dead. Some versions has that referring to dangerous underwater currents just offshore and locals say the Zapotecs offered the bodies of their dead to this sea and the consequence for why the beach was unoccupied until alternative foreigners started arriving here in 1969. Other versions has it coming from the Nahuatl word sipolitlan or zipotli, meaning bumpy pl...
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  • 7. Playa Zipolite Zipolite
    Playa Zipolite is a beach community located in San Pedro Pochutla municipality on the southern coast of Oaxaca state in Mexico between Huatulco and Puerto Escondido. Zipolite is best known as being Mexico’s first and only legal public nude beach and for retaining much of the hippie culture that made it notable in the 1970s. The origin of the name Zipolite has been lost over time. Translated from Zapotec, Zipolite means beach of the dead. Some versions has that referring to dangerous underwater currents just offshore and locals say the Zapotecs offered the bodies of their dead to this sea and the consequence for why the beach was unoccupied until alternative foreigners started arriving here in 1969. Other versions has it coming from the Nahuatl word sipolitlan or zipotli, meaning bumpy pl...
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