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

.

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

 . Being a Spanish name,

Vallarta

  is usually pronounced ′vie-arta′, not ′val-arta′.

Puerto Vallarta

  has a typical

tropical

climate, with temperature and variations in humidity that can make July through September nearly intolerable. It has pronounced wet and dry seasonal variation, with sudden monsoon-like rains from July through September, normally for a few hours in the evenings.

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Cancun

  is a coastal city in

Mexico

  easternmost state,

Quintana Roo

, on the

Yucatán

Peninsula.

Cancun

  is located on the

Yucatan

  Channel that separates

Mexico

  from the island of Cuba in the Greater Antilles. The

Cancun

  region is sometimes known as the

Mexican Caribbean

 .

The temperature of the city is warm and

tropical

, moderated by the marine breezes created by onshore trade-winds, which circulates through its avenues. Under Koppen’s climate classification,

Cancun

  features a

tropical

  wet and dry climate that borders on a

tropical

monsoon climate.

There are some (relatively) small Mayan vestiges of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in

Cancún

. El Rey (Las Ruinas del Rey) is located in the Hotel Zone. El Meco, a more substantial site, is found on the mainland just outside the city limits on the road to Punta Sam.

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