a port and fashionable resort city on the Pacific coast of southern Mexico; known for beaches and water sports (including cliff diving)

(Nahuatl) On the western coast of Mexico, the official port of entry to northern Spanish America for ships traveling across the Pacific Ocean from Manila. The site of an annual fair (fería), when the galleons arrived and discharged their Asian imports.

Acapulco (Officially: Acapulco de Juárez) is a city and major sea port in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific coast of Mexico, 300 km (190 miles) southwest from Mexico City, at . Acapulco is located on a deep, semi-circular bay. It is a port of call for shipping and cruising lines running between Panama and San Francisco, California, USA.

a international airport