Pacific Coast of Mexico

On the peninsula's eastern coast it extends from the head of the Gulf of California to Cabo San Lucas.

Along Mexico's western mainland its Pacific Coast extends from the head of the eastern Gulf of California near the Colorado River Delta in the state of Sonora to south of the gulf to the open Pacific, and then further south to the border with Guatemala in the state of Chiapas near Tapachula.

Major Pacific coastal cities include Tijuana, Ensenada, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco, and Salina Cruz.

By the 8th century in the Acapulco Bay area, there was a small culture first be dominated by the Olmecs, then the Teotihuacan, the Maya, and in 1486 by the Aztec Empire.

[1] After the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519−1521), the Pacific Coast of present-day Mexico was first seen by Europeans at Acapulco Bay.