History Throughout the history Banderas Bay has had different names. We can go back to the time of the reconquest by the Spaniards. It was in March 1525 when the captain Don Francisco Cortes of San Buenaventura, a relative of Hernan Cortes, arrived in the region, where they found a group of Indians with flags made of bird feathers. The Spaniards carried Spanish flags with the insignia and the image of the Virgin Mary, but the reflection of sun on the metal armor frightened the Indians, who were fearful leaving the forgotten flags. Since then, the area was named Banderas Bay. In the eighteenth century, he called the hump Bay by the large number of humpback whales that were in it. In the nineteenth century, what is now Puerto Vallarta was known as The Syndicate, there was carried out loading and unloading of supplies for mining companies who worked in the mines Cuale and San Sebastian. In 1851, Don Guadeloupe Sanchez Torres, a native of Cihuatlán, Jalisco, began to make regular deliveries of salt to San Blas to refine the silver mines. In late 1851, Don Guadeloupe took his family to Las Peñas of St. Mary of Guadeloupe. In 1880, The Syndicate had a population of 1500 inhabitants. In 1918 he was awarded his new name: Puerto Vallarta, in memory of renowned lawyer and governor of Jalisco, Don Ignacio L. Vallarta. Around 1930, national and foreign tourists began to arrive in Puerto Vallarta and in 1954, Mexicana Airlines inaugurated its flight Guadalajara-Puerto Vallarta. In 1963, with the arrival of John Huston to film "Night of the Iguana," Puerto Vallarta begins a takeoff that until today has not been arrested.

Church The Church of Our Lady of Guadeloupe presides over the horizon of Puerto Vallarta with its elegant and sober tower crowned. The first stone was laid in 1895, authorized the construction of the Church of Peñas, blessed by the priest of San Sebastian. In 1921 the parish stands as an immovable, patron saint of San Jose and as holder by tradition Our Lady of Guadeloupe. In 1942 came the father Rafael Parra Castillo, the man who brought many works of art to the Church, among others, the stations via crucis, the work of Guareña Jose Esteban Ramirez, who also design the crown. The original was destroyed by an earthquake in the late 90 and was replaced by the current fiberglass.

Jaripeo Jaripeo is the set of tasks that are performed by throwing, kicking, riders and bulls, although at present many people use this term to call only to the jockeys bulls. The jaripeo is the predecessor of the current charred, whose origins date back to the days of conquest and colonial times (1519-1810). Fray Pedro de Barrientos and Sebastian de Aparicio is considered the father of charreria, since he was the one who abolished the law prohibiting riding to the Indians, which did not prevent them from becoming experts in after jockeys. In 1919 formed the first formal grouping called Jalisco Charros, which led to many others across the country, is when the canvases are built charros where charred. Actual are ten Charro luck: Cala horse, skins on the canvas, jineteo the bull ring of terna, jineteo mare, Mangano on foot, on horseback Mangano, walking death and charred skirmish.

Kayak Checking out kayaking in some of the coastal lagoons of the Bay is a wonderful thing. We can do it in the Estero del Salado, where in the canals running through mangroves, we can admire the wide variety of birds that nest and feed there, and enjoy other pleasures of nature.