We received only a very small amount of rain and almost no wind. Hurricane Rick did cause some disruption in cruise schedules for one or two days, but cruise passengers are always covered by our excellent no port-no pay policy. Hurricane Rick looked initially like it was headed for a direct hit on Cabo San Lucas, but instead fizzled out and made landfall about 15 miles 25 km north of Mazatlan with sustained winds of only 55 mph, a tropical storm, but not a hurricane.
Mazatlan received quite a bit of rainfall, and some trees and signs were down, but that was all. No major damage was incurred. Puerto Vallarta received no impact from the storm and vacations continued as normal.
There was no impact on the area. By the next morning, it had fizzled out into a Tropical Depression. November - Category 5 Hurricane John looked like it was on a collision course with the city, causing a great deal of preparation and worry. However, like so many hurricanes before it, Hurricane John swerved to the west at the last minute, and completely spared Puerto Vallarta, instead making landfall eventually just North of Los Cabos. Other hurricanes this year such as Lane and Paul passed well out into the Pacific, heading toward the Baja.
October - Category 5 Hurricane Kenna was the first major storm to hit Vallarta in over 35 years. September - Tropical Storm Javier dropped a whopping September - Category 4 Hurricane Nora caused a hurricane warning to be issued for the Puerto Vallarta area, but the storm moved offshore at the last minute, heading for the Baja instead.
No damage was reported in Vallarta. September - Category 5 Hurricane Linda passed by without much incident. The storm, carrying mph winds, did produce waves that caused beachfront hotels to close, and some minor flooding, though no major damage was reported.
However, the land weakened the storm rapidly, and although the area experienced foot waves and flooding in the Melaque area, including some road washouts, no deaths were reported, and most of the damage was to the outlying rural coastal areas. September - Category 1 Hurricane Lilly made landfall near Puerto Vallarta, where it claimed the lives of 12 people - 9 on one capsized boat. Isla Cuale was flooded, causing it's residents to relocate to the new Colonia Pa'lo Seco. Have damage reports, photos to submit, or even questions?
Contact Us. No damage to buildings, just tree limbs down, signs blown around, etc. Window and Roof Damage, some downed trees, coastal flooding. Structural damage to small residences, coastal flooding, evacuation possible. Extensive damage, buildings destroyed, major flooding, evacuation mandatory. Hurricane John H1N1 Swine Flu. Relief Agencies.
Flooding, an organized storm notable only because it could become stronger. These harbors were also necessary during the long journeys, to and from the Orient so that ships could be repaired if necessary and crews could take on provisions. One of the first to propose a settlement on Banderas Bay was Captain Pedro de Unamuno after the trip he made in from the Philippines.
An early procession in honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe. It is known that a shipyard was built on the bay in probably where Mismaloya is located today and two ships were built for Bernardo Bernal de Pinadero that would be used in the colonization of Lower California. In document and in ships logs dating from the XVIII Century, constant references are made to whaling ships and fishing boast that harbored in the bay.
At the time, Banderas Bay was also known as Humpback Bay Bahia de Los Jorobados because of the number of humpback whales that were seen in the bay. In the XIX Century, the site that is today Puerto Vallarta was used for the loading and unloading of supplies and materials for the mining companies that worked the mines in Cuale and San Sebastian.
Don Guadalupe and his men built a small lean-to from tree trunks and palm leaves so that they would have a place to rest that was out of the sun while the sale was being loaded onto donkeys for transport to the mines. With the arrival of new families, the village grew bit by bit and its economy began to change.
While some families brought in salt, others began to devote themselves to agriculture or cattle raising. New families from Cuale and San Sebastian came to settle in the port.
On the 23rd of July, a Maritime Customs Office was established. The following year on October 31, , the town was given official political and judicial standing when Decree No. The discovery of silver in the United States of America brought down the price of the metal and old prosperity became an affliction. The miners from the mountain townships left their recently acquired trade to go back to agriculture.
They chose the fertile Ameca valley, so rich that it produced three corn harvests a year. In March , the first post office was opened and in September of the same year, a telegraph was installed. On May 31st, , by Congressional decree No. In when the Montgomery Fruit Company purchased about 70, acres in nearby Ixtapa, Vallarta began to boom due to the surplus of jobs available on the newly-opened banana plantations.
They also built a railway to transport the bananas from Ixtapa to El Salado estuary where they were loaded onto ships to carry them to the United States. This operation ended in when the Montgomery Fruit Company had to leave Mexico because of the new agrarian law that had just come into effect. Other products were raised in the area such as corn, beans, tobacco, and small coconuts used for their oil which was shipped to the interior to be used in the national market.
In about , a few national and foreign tourists began to come o Puerto Vallarta, returning year after year, to spend their vacation enjoying the tranquillity and great natural beauty of the port.
Slowly word began to spread and each year more tourists came. In these years a new source of wealth was found in sharks. During the II WW, shark liver oil was given as a nutritional supplement to the soldiers. The centennial celebrations of Puerto Vallarta were a big event. The date was established as expected for December 12th, Aero Transportes de Jalisco S.
On the morning of December 12th, the harbor town was woken up by 21 cannon shots from the battleship Potosi, by the fleet entering the bay with Mexican flags gallantly waving. A relic of the True Cross was brought to Vallarta as well on this occasion.
News of this event was shown in cinemas around the country, showing the landscape and beauty of the town. He noticed that houses in the town were built based on the so-called Serrano-style.
These houses were built between and , and it is these that gave the image of a typical Mexican town. They are noted by having sloping and tile roofs with adobe walls, and long, narrow wooden windows, which also had wooden beams in the upper frame.
Freddy Romero did not agree with this influence because it did not adapt well to the local environment much warmer and humid than those towns in the mountains. There was no reason to inherit those small windows and tall roofs. He preferred white adobe facades, red-tiled pitched roofs, wrought iron, and stone walls. Visitors started coming in from other Mexican towns and from abroad.
When I first came here, almost thirty years ago, Vallarta was a fishing village of some souls. There was one road to the outside world — and it was impassable during the rainy season. I arrived in a small plane, and we had to buzz the cattle off a field outside town before setting down. Huston, An Open Book.
It was he who introduced the cupola as an architectural element in several homes he built between Gringo Gulch and Mismaloya, where he obtained a very timely year lease. Filming was not exactly a picnic, though. Gabriel Figueroa, the great Mexican photographer , had a specially hard time getting and installing lighting equipment and power plants in the jungle with the ocean as the only access.
It was the year For the first time, Puerto Vallarta received simultaneously big Hollywood stars, national celebrities, and USA intellectuals. Tennessee Williams, the author of The Night of the Iguana , visited the set frequently and always in the company of Gigi, his beloved poodle, who, according to John Huston, often suffered from sunstroke.
On the other hand, Liz Taylor , sometimes accompanied by her two children, spent most of the time with Burton, with whom she was deeply in love. Richard also purchased the villa on the other side of the street and Guillermo Wulff built the famous bridge that connected them.
John Huston later built his house in the small cove of Las Caletas where he lived until very shortly before his death. This extraordinary gathering of celebrities, captive in an out-of-the-way spot, was too tempting for the international press that soon began arriving in hordes.
In addition to the gossip about famous stars, the media showed the primeval beauty of the place. In the face of the growing demands of tourism, the need for an adequate response from authorities and investors became urgent, and the governor of Jalisco from — , Francisco Medina Ascencio , was there to promote the change. Through his efforts, Puerto Vallarta was outfitted with the infrastructure required of urban development and a modern tourist destination.
Thanks to his influence, the city soon enjoyed electric power and telephone service. In addition, the first harbor in Jalisco was built at El Salado. He knew this would give more international exposure to the city. Out of all this promotional activity, the President gave Air France the concession for a flight to Paris — Montreal — Guadalajara — Puerto Vallarta, thus attracting European tourism.
It was only after that the construction of big hotels began. The key to this blissful boom was keeping the prices in pesos.
By the flux of tourism and immigrants demanded, on one hand, the building of new hotels and, on the other, the development of residential options for its employees and executives. Impeccably planned, the development would eventually include a school, condominiums, a residential site, a shopping mall, and large hotel properties. Work on the Marina proper, with its boat slips, was started in and by the Marina was in full swing.
The project was basically finished by , ahead of schedule. The first years of the nineties were hard for Puerto Vallarta. Even though national tourism grew, international travelers dropped off. It was crucial to put an end to this decline. This institution has since been in charge of handling the funds raised through a two-percent tax on hotel room occupation. The joint efforts of the fund, hotels and restaurants, free agents, tour operators, and guardians of the environment turned things around and Puerto Vallarta began the process of earning a position among world-class beach destinations.
In contrast with Cancun, Ixtapa, or Huatulco — government-planned resort destinations — Puerto Vallarta is somewhat of an accidental resort town. Nobody set out to put Puerto Vallarta on the tourist map, at least not in the early years. But today the primitive charms of yore have been substituted with million-dollar investments and fierce competition. The globe is shrinking and traveling to places once inaccessible due to distances, is now common practice. The natural beauty of Banderas Bay, with its deep waters either warm or cool, depending on the season , immensely rich biodiversity.
Lagoons and wetland birds can be watched year-round, while right in the bay, whales and dolphins frolic. In the foothills, the tropical forest welcomes hikers, horseback riders, and mountain bikers. Crossing the streams and cooling down in the pools formed by their waterfalls, explorers learn to tell fig trees from parotas and amapas.
On the beaches at night, sea turtles lay their eggs during the summer months. Banderas Bay is definitely a marvel and a strong attraction for tourism.
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