Manzanillo

Manzanillo is a city, seat of Manzanillo Municipality, in the Mexican territory of Colima. The city, situated on the Pacific Ocean, contains Mexico's busiest port that is in charge of taking care of Pacific payload for the Mexico City zone. It is the biggest delivering region for the business segment and the travel industry in the province of Colima. The city is known as the "sailfish capital of the world". Since 1957, it has facilitated significant national and worldwide angling rivalries, for example, the Dorsey Tournament, making it an extremely appealing angling goal.

Manzanillo has turned out to be one of the nation's most significant traveler resorts, and its fantastic lodgings and eateries keep on gathering the requests of both national and universal the travel industry. In 1522, Gonzalo de Sandoval, compelled from conquistador Hernan Cortes, moored in the Bay of Salagua north of Manzanillo Bay, searching for safe harbors and great shipbuilding destinations.

In the prior year he left, Sandoval allowed a crowd of people to nearby Indian chieftains in a little inlet, which today conveys the name Playa de La Audiencia. An extraordinary piece of his armada, which left to overcome the Philippines, was developed in Salagua. In 1908, President Porfirio Diaz assigned Manzanillo as an official port of section to Mexico. It was the state capital of Colima from 20 February to 1 March 1915, while Pancho Villa's troops were taking steps to catch the city of Colima.