The history of our puerto is quite interesting, with highs and lows, with luck, but all led us to be who we are now, a city with the soul of a people and inhabitants warm and sincere. This year, the anniversary of Puerto Vallarta, in which it will be 100 years as a municipality, and 50 years as a city. Here we’ll tell you points in your history:

Puerto Vallarta remained isolated from the rest of the world between the sierra, the ocean and the Ameca river for many years. Economic activity was in the towns of Cuale, San Sebastian and Mascota, in the silver mines. The area that today corresponds to Puerto Vallarta was used for the loading and unloading of supplies for the mining companies of the peoples of the mountains. At that time, the place was known as Las Peñas de Santa María de Guadalupe, named so by Don Guadalupe Sánchez Torres, salt merchant, who regularly visited the penalties, since the mines required large quantities of salt for refining the silver.

With the arrival of the family of Don Guadalupe Sánchez Torres on 12 December 1851 and other families, such as the Monastery Jewel, Apollonius of oaks, Cleopas and Martin Andrade, among others; the port began to populate and its economy to grow. Some families were devoted to agriculture, livestock and other trade. For 1880 already had with 1.500 inhabitants. In 1885 the port was officially opened to the national navigation. In the same year was established an Office of Maritime Customs, and declared the town a place political and judicial officially called the penalties. But it was not until 31 May 1918, that the penalties obtained the title of municipality and with a new name: Puerto Vallarta, in honor to the Governor of Jalisco Ignacio L. Vallarta.

In 1968 he was given the status of a city, and was granted funds to build a bridge over the Ameca river that would connect to Puerto Vallarta with the state of Nayarit, the coastal highway from Barra de Navidad to Puerto Vallarta, the Compostela – Las Varas and Puerto Vallarta, and the international airport named Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, in honor of who was the president-in-turn. Thanks to the influence of Medina Ascencio, the city soon enjoyed electric power and telephone services. In addition, during the government of Medina Ascencio were built the hotel Camino Real and a Banamex, as well as the first harbor in Jalisco in the El Salado estuary, allowing the arrival of cruise ships to the port.