A major beach resort city on Mexico's Pacific coast, famous for its cliffs, diving, and nightlife.
From Nahuatl 'Acapulco,' meaning 'place of the great reeds,' derived from 'acatl' (reed) and 'polocan' (place of). The name preserves the Aztec language even after 500 years of Spanish colonization.
Acapulco's fame shifted dramatically with tourism—it went from a sleepy colonial port to 1950s glamour destination to modern party city, each version erasing the previous one in tourists' minds.
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