Sunday, March 20, 2011

A Lesson in Puerto Vallarta Geography

Now that you’ve told everyone you know that you’ll soon be kicking back in a villa Puerto Vallarta, the questions are starting to roll in: how big is the villa? How many bedrooms (any extra)? How close to the beach? Where is Puerto Vallarta? You have answers ready: the villa’s huge; it has five bedrooms (all claimed); you can see the beach from the balcony; and it’s in Mexico – duh!

Here’s the thing – Mexico is big and you’ll sound smarter if you can actually identify some of the particulars about your destination. Tell your friends that you’ll be staying in a villa Puerto Vallarta in Jalisco, Mexico, the sixth largest state in that nation. It’s pretty much central to Mexico in a north-south sense, and its western boundary is the Pacific Ocean - that beach you see from your balcony.

Jalisco is actually kind of a big deal. Guadalajara, the capital city, is second in size only to Mexico City. The state has the fourth largest population in the country. It is the home of Mexico’s largest natural lake, Lake Chalapa.

A bit closer to home, or at least closer to your villa Puerto Vallarta, Banderas Bay, the largest natural bay in Mexico, glitters all along the edge of the city. And the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range rises up behind the city.

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