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Puerto Barrios (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweɾ.to ˈβa.rjos]) is a city in Guatemala, located within the Gulf of Honduras. The city is located on Bahia de Amatique . Puerto Barrios is the departmental seat of Izabal department and is the administrative seat of Puerto Barrios municipality.
Puerto Vallarta (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweɾto βaˈʎaɾta] or simply Vallarta) is a Mexican beach resort city on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas in the Mexican state of Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta is the second largest urban agglomeration in the state after the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.
Smaller forests are located near Livingston, Dulce River, Puerto Barrios, Punta de Manabique, and in the Jeanette Kawas National Park. [50] Mangrove stands cover at least 130,000 hectares (1,300 km 2 ) of land in Belize, and some 708 hectares (7 km 2 ) of Guatemala's Atlantic coast.
Los Arcos National Marine Park is a national marine park in Mexico. It is located in the Bahía de Banderas, near the settlements of Puerto Vallarta and Mismaloya. The arches themselves are called Los Arcos de Mismaloya, "the Mismaloya Arches" in Spanish. The islets and below is home to many types of wildlife, from birds to sea turtles. [1]
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Puerto Barrios Airport is located in the northern part of the city of Puerto Barrios, near the shore of Amatique Bay.. In the 1920s and 30s Puerto Barrios was a seaplane destination only; a first concrete runway was built by the United States Government during World War II for strategic reasons. [3]
Amatique Bay seen from space. Amatique Bay is a large bay in the Gulf of Honduras, along the eastern coast of Guatemala and Belize.It stretches from Santo Tomás de Castilla in the south to Punta Gorda in the north, where it opens to the Caribbean Sea.
Though locally regarded so, it is not the largest bay in Mexico. [3] Tourism is very important to the local economies, and the Bahía de Banderas coast is an important location of tourist facilities development in both states. Puerto Vallarta has been the longstanding primary resort destination and cruise ship port of the bay. However, beyond ...