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Location Information:
Puerto
Vallarta is a Mexican resort city
situated on the Pacific Ocean's
Bahía de Banderas. The 2005 census
reported Puerto Vallarta's
population as 177,830 making it the
fifth-largest city in the state of
Jalisco. The City of Puerto Vallarta
is the government seat of the
Municipality of Puerto Vallarta
which comprises the city as well as
population centers outside of the
city extending from Boca de Tomatlán
to the Nayarit border (the Ameca
River). The municipality's
population in the 2005 census was
220,368.
The municipality has an area of
502.19 square miles (1,300.67 km²).
To the North it borders the SW part
of the state of Nayarit. To the east
it borders the municipality of
Mascota and San Sebastián del Oeste,
and to the South it borders the
municipalities of Talpa de Allende
and Cabo Corriente.
Puerto Vallarta is named after
Ignacio Vallarta, a former governor
of Jalisco. In Spanish, Puerto
Vallarta is often shortened to
"Vallarta", while English speakers
call the city P.V. for short. The
city occasionally is spelled or
pronounced as Porto Vallarta. In
internet shorthand the city is often
referred to as PVR, after the IATA
code (ICAO MMPR) for its
international airport. Tourism makes
up roughly 50% of all economic
activity in Puerto Vallarta
according to puertovallarta.net. The
high season for international
tourism in Puerto Vallarta extends
from late November through March (or
later depending on the timing of the
College Spring Break period in the
USA.) The city is especially popular
with US residents from the West
Coast because of the number of
convenient flights between Puerto
Vallarta and Los Angeles, San
Francisco and Seattle. The air
routes between Puerto Vallarta and
Los Angeles and Puerto Vallarta and
San Francisco are by far the most
heavily traveled of all air routes
to the city
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