Today the fort serves as the Museo Histórico de Acapulco ( Acapulco Historical Museum ), which shows the port ’ s history from the pre-Hispanic period until independence.

Many are attracted by the glitzy hotels on the south side and Acapulco ’ s famous nightlife.

Eleven reptile subspecies named in E. H. Taylor ’ s honor are still recognized as valid: Lizards: Brachymeles boulengeri taylori ( Negros Short-legged Skink, from Philippines ), Gerrhonotus liocephalus taylori ( Taylor ’ s Alligator Lizard, from Chihuahua, Mexico ), Lipinia pulchella taylori ( Negros Beautiful Lipinia, a skink from the Philippines ), Sceloporus occidentalis taylori ( Sierra Fence Lizard, from California ), Sphenomorphus assatus taylori ( Taylor ’ s Forest Skink, from southern Mexico ), Uta stansburiana taylori ( Taylor ’ s Side-blotched Lizard, from Mexico ); Snakes: Coniophanes picevittis taylori ( Taylor ’ s Black-striped Snake, from Mexico ), Cyclocorus nuchalis taylori ( Taylor ’ s Southern Triangle-spotted Snake, from southern Philippines ), Ficimia publia taylori * ( Taylor ’ s Blotched Hooknose Snake, from Yucatán, Mexico ), Lampropeltis triangulum taylori ( Utah Milksnake, from USA ), Micrurus browni taylori ( Acapulco Coralsnake, from Guerrero, Mexico ).

Colosio cabs travel through most of the tourist area of Acapulco.

Costera cabs drive up and down the coast of Acapulco, which is where most of the hotels for visitors are, but also includes some of old Acapulco.

The Philippines, as part of the New Spain, long had its most important communication with Acapulco in Mexico, and was accordingly placed on the east side of the date line, despite being at the western edge of the Pacific Ocean.

The most popular of their hits ( all of which featured Stubbs on lead vocals ) include " Baby I Need Your Loving ", " I Can't Help Myself ( Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch )", " It's the Same Old Song ", " Reach Out I'll Be There ", " Standing in the Shadows of Love ", " Bernadette ", " Still Water ( Love )", " Ain't No Woman ( Like the One I've Got )" as well as the late hit " Loco In Acapulco ".

He was most famous for his roles in movies like Fun in Acapulco with Elvis Presley ( 1963 ), as well as the lead in The Stepmother ( 1972 ).

Chimney Rock is located several hundred yards away ; the formation which most people call Chimney Rock is Acapulco Rock.

After the Spanish Armada's defeat, the so-called Manila Galleon Trade from Acapulco, Mexico, were all scattered and one of the most important points where these galleons happened to harbor is Palauig, the present municipality.

The area most impacted was the region in and around Acapulco.

Tourists in luxury hotels of Acapulco, for the most part generally unaffected by the hurricane, and rapidly recovered while other parts of the city remained devastated.

The Dolores Olmedo House is located in the traditional downtown of Acapulco and is noted for the murals by Diego Rivera that adorn it.

The Botanical Garden of Acapulco is a tropical garden located on lands owned by the Universidad Loyola del Pacifico.

The Mayan Palace course was designed by Pedro Guericia and an economical course called the Club de Golf Acapulco is near the convention center.

This has led many more to choose Acapulco, in spite of the fact that the flight is longer and more expensive than to Cancun for many travelers.

As far as transportation goes, it is the cheapest form other than walking in Acapulco.

* Lamont Herbert Dozier credits Klein as an inspiration for the song he co-wrote " Loco in Acapulco "; " I believe the song depicts the consumeristic nature of the materialist society that is obsessed with brand identity.

Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade — Acapulco — shipped out 150, 000 to 345, 000 kg ( 4 to 9 million taels ) of silver annually from this year to 1602.

* Fort San Diego, in Acapulco Bay, Mexico, is completed by the Spanish as a defence against their erstwhile vassals, the Dutch.

The city is on Mexican Federal Highway 95 which connects Acapulco to Mexico City.

General Juan N. Álvarez International Airport, also known as Acapulco International Airport, is an aviation facility located from Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.

During the summer Acapulco is visited by Canadian charter airlines from places such as Montreal and Toronto.

Collins and Dozier also co-wrote " Loco in Acapulco " for The Four Tops, which is also featured on the Buster soundtrack.

He played a major role in the development and support of the city of Acapulco, which is now well known all over the world as one of the principal tourist destinations in Mexico and Latin America.

For example, it is impossible to search for " the phone numbers of all persons who live in Acapulco and each have more than 100 appearances in my photo collection and with whom I have had e-mail within last month ".

* February 8-Asteroid 6349 Acapulco is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.

Sullen and depressed, Amanda is invited by Blake to a conference in Acapulco, where she meets the handsome Prince Michael of Moldavia.

Buster flees to Acapulco where he is met by fellow Great Train Robber Bruce Reynolds ( Larry Lamb ) and his girlfriend Franny Reynolds ( Stephanie Lawrence ) who are also on the run and living it up in the sun with the profits of their crime.

Acapulco Gold is a sativa-dominant indica / sativa hybrid of Cannabis.

It is likely originating from the area around Acapulco, Mexico.

They also fought for coastal cities Acapulco, Guerrero and Cancún, Quintana Roo ; the state capital of Monterrey, Nuevo León, and the states of Veracruz and San Luis Potosí.

As the San Bernardino Strait was along the route of the Spanish galleons plying between Manila and Acapulco, Mexico, a royal port was established in Palapag where the richly laden Manila galleons were protected from unfavorable winds and troubled seas.

Popular destinations outside the United States include Cancún, Cabo San Lucas, Acapulco, Barbados, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands and Varadero, Cuba ( for non-US citizens ).

Episodes were filmed in Athens, Rome, Florence, Madrid, Venice, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Acapulco, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Morocco.

In 1595 Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeno, captain of the 200 ton galleon San Augustin was shipwrecked at Drakes Bay, He chose to bypassed the Farallones, on his return to Acapulco in an open boat, with 65 hungry men. Ggitzen ( talk ) 23: 41, 18 September 2012 ( UTC )

Andrés de Urdaneta Though he sailed to 38 degrees North before turning east, his hunch paid off, and he hit the coast near Cape Mendocino, California, then followed the coast south to San Blas and later to Acapulco.

Usually, the movies are shot in hotels, airports and fishing areas in Acapulco, Cancún or Cabo San Lucas, among other destinations.

However, instead of the writer, an unknown man turned up at the hotel and introduced himself as Hal Croves, a translator from Acapulco and San Antonio.

It has 19 wholly owned distributors along with 27 major independent distributors in Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Mexico City, Ciudad Madero, Cuernavaca, Guadalajara, Iguala, León, Monterrey, Morelia, Pachuca, Poza Rica, Puebla, Querétaro, Río Blanco, San Luis Potosí and Toluca.

This route was charted by the Basque navigator and friar Andrés de Urdaneta, on board the San Pedro, and for nearly three centuries was the one followed by the galleons of Spain sailing from Manila to Acapulco.

It has been speculated that the reasons San Blas was chosen included that it was a week's sailing closer than Acapulco to the intended destination sites in California, that it was not far from the capital of New Spain, and perhaps more importantly, it had ready access to tropical hardwoods that would be needed to build the ships for the strenuous voyages as far north as today's Alaska.

He was presented with the ACM / AAAI Allen Newell Award at the ACM Banquet in San Diego in June 2003 and International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence ( IJCAI ) in Acapulco in August 2003.

These were: the Hamilton Princess and Southampton Princess in Bermuda ; the Bahamas Princess ( formerly the King's Inn ) and the Xanadu Princess Tower ( formerly the International ) in Freeport ; the Acapulco Princess and the Pierre Marques in Mexico ; and the Francis Drake in San Francisco.

The Viceroy of Peru, Agustín de Jáuregui, had heard of Bodega's mission before Bodega arrived and decided to expedite matters by sending all the quicksilver he could spare to Acapulco on the merchant ship San Pablo.

He was a multiple winner of the San Diego to Acapulco Race.

It is approximately 5 nautical miles from the Pacific Ocean and sits near the entrance along the Paso de Acapulco, otherwise known as San Bernardino Strait.

While docked at San José de Guatemala, the Pacific Mail steamship SS Acapulco was involved in the Barrundia Affair of 1890.

He also completed the Fort of San Diego in Acapulco, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

During that time it was in direct competition with the fairs of Acapulco, Jalapa and San Juan de los Lagos.

However, in 1668, Padre Diego Luis de San Vitores set sail from Acapulco to Guam.