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Puerto Vallarta

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Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco/Mexico Las Peñas A port founded in 1851 as ‘The Rocks’ from the Spanish peña ‘rock’ and renamed in 1886 after Don Ignacio Vallarta, the third governor of Jalisco.

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