Sailboats on the beach of Manzanillo, Mexico
About this photograph
- Creator
- Margery H. Freeman
- Date created
- January 1980
- Location
- Manzanillo, Mexico
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2007. Terms of use
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A man walks next to three small sailboats on the sand a few yards from the water. A few white changing tents sit near the sailboats. White apartment buildings climb up a tree-covered hill on the far side of the beach.
Manzanillo is a large seaport town on Mexico’s west coast. It was founded early after the Spanish conquest of Mexico and became an important ship-building port during the colonial period. The name of the town comes from the Manzanillo tree, which provided essential raw materials for building ocean–going ships. Today the town is Mexico’s busiest port and a popular tourist destination.
