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Playa Azul (en: Blue Beach) is a beachside town in the Mexican state of Michoacán. The city lives from tourism and fishing. It is the southern terminus of Federal Highway 37, which connects it with the state of San Luis Potosí. [2] The town was the epicentre of the Playa Azul earthquake, a magnitude M w 7.2 (M s 7.3) quake that struck on 24 ...
Varadero (Spanish pronunciation: [baɾaˈðeɾo]), also referred to as Playa Azul (Blue Beach), is a resort town in the province of Matanzas, Cuba, and one of the largest resort areas in the Caribbean.
Playa Azul (Benidorm), one of the tallest buildings in Spain; Playa Azul, a Mexican film that won Best Original Score at the 34th Ariel Awards "Playa Azul", a song by Los Amigos Invisibles from the 2002 album The Venezuelan Zinga Son, Vol. 1
The area has a desert climate.At the bay's north end lies Punta la Gringa and Playa Rincon to the south. To the west is the Sierra de San Borja responsible for the occasional hot, dry winds known locally as "Westies" which can go from zero to over 50 knots in a matter of minutes. [10]
Culiacán, officially Culiacán Rosales, is a city in northwestern Mexico, the capital and largest city of both Culiacán Municipality and the state of Sinaloa.The city was founded on 29 September 1531 by the Spanish conquerors Lázaro de Cebreros and Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán under the name "Villa de San Miguel", referring to its patron saint, Michael the Archangel.
The current border between Baja California in Mexico and California in the United States was delineated in 1848. A marble monument was erected on the border near the shoreline in 1851. The borough began to be developed in 1957 with the fraccionamientos of Soler and Costa Azul. The name "Playas de Tijuana" was acquired in 1959.
The city is 134 kilometres (83 mi) south of the state capital of Hermosillo, and 389 kilometres (242 mi) from the U.S. border. The municipality's formal name is Guaymas de Zaragoza and the city's formal name is the Heroica Ciudad de Guaymas. [2] The city proper is mostly an industrial port and is the principal port for the state of Sonora.
[14] [1] Pictured to the right is an image of the relief located outside of ‘The Temple of Masks’. [1] This area is believed to be an elite residence where the ‘ajaw’ mask signifies that it was a house for Maya rulers. [11] The term ‘ajaw’ refers to the image of the half abstracted face, which is symbolic of the lord. [11]