Did
you know this about Mazatlan ???
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Few
people realize that Mazatlan is home of one of the largest
tuna and shrimp fishing fleets in the world. Most people
only know it as a international resort with fine restaurants
and hotels
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Lake El Salto is a 23,000 acre impoundment, home to some
of the very best Largemouth Bass
Fishing in the Mexico and the world. Lake El Salto is
located 50 miles north of Mazatlan. Thousands
of bass over 10 pounds have been caught
and released at this great Mexico bass
fishing lake!
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Mazatlan's
historic opera house, the Angela Peralta Theater in February
of 2004 will celebrate it 130th birthday. It is the jewel
of the historic area that stretches out behind the sea wall
at Mazatlan's Olas Altas.
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Mazatlan
is based upon the Nahutal Indian word Mazatl meaning the
place of the deer. Of course today, with over 600,000 inhabitants,
few if any deer are seen
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Mazatlan itself was not developed by the Spanish nor the
Indians but by a group of very enterprising German immigrants
who developed the port facilities in order to import agricultural
equipment. They were the creators of the Pacifico Beer and
the Banda Music
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The Port of Mazatlan was occupied by American troops in
1847 during the Mexican American war, in 1864 by the French,
during the American Civil War when a group of Confederate
soldiers took the city over trying to Perpetuate the ideas
of the Confederacy South of the border, and by the British
Navy in 1871
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The city of Mazatlan then got the dubious distinction of
being the 2nd city in the world after Tripoli, Libya of
being one of the first to suffer aerial bombardment. During
the revolution of 1910-17. The bomb landed not on target
but on the city streets of Mazatlan and in the process killed
two citizens and wounded several others.
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'El Faro' (the lighthouse), located on the island-penisula
of 'Cerro Creston', has a height of 157 meters (515 foot)
above sea level, which allows a reach of more than 48 nautical
miles, being considered as the highest natural lighthouse
of the world.
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