San Francisco, Nayarit
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San Francisco, also known as San Pancho, is a Mexican town situated in the State of Nayarit[1] on the central Pacific coast of Mexico about 50 km north of Puerto Vallarta on Federal Highway 200.
Geography, flora and fauna
San Francisco is situated along the Pacific coast of the Mexican state of Nayarit. The entire state of Nayarit is located south of the Tropic of Cancer and experiences a tropical, hot, and humid climate.
San Francisco is at the edge of the
History
Before the arrival of the Spanish, and still somewhat today, the coast and nearby mountainous region known as the
As the Spanish developed ports at San Blas to the north and Puerto Vallarta to the south, the region began to increase in population but still at a much slower pace and was cut off from urban centers like Guadalajara. Franciscan priests presided along with landowners over huge latifundio estates.
Long after Mexican independence, in 1931, as part of sweeping land reform following the Mexican Revolution, the land that comprises modern-day Sayulita and San Francisco was transferred to communal ejido control.
San Francisco continued to rely on subsistence fishing and some mango and tropical fruit cultivation until the changes made by then-President Luis Echeverría in the 1970s who made it the site of his family vacation retreat. A flow of federal funding to San Francisco followed his dream of making San Francisco a “self-sufficient...Third World village” which included the present hospital and a short-lived Universidad del Tercer Mundo.
Bird studies
Molina et al. (2016) made a study of the Avifauna, and report more than 40 species of birds, also Figueroa and Puebla (2014) made a research of the diversity in Sierra de Vallejo.
References
- Meyer, Jean. Breve historia de Nayarit. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1997
- http://revistabiociencias.uan.mx/index.php/BIOCIENCIAS/article/view/86/122
- ^ "San Pancho – Riviera's Cultural Capital". www.rivieranayarit.com.