Just as the Semana Santa (Holy Week) vacation period is beginning, area hotels along with rental homes and condos across Puerto Peñasco are registering to be nearly full, reports Héctor Vázquez del Mercado, President of the local Convention and Visitors Bureau (OCV). Though Vázquez del Mercado acknowledged it is hard to measure the true number […]
The recent Spring Break in Puerto Peñasco is believed to have been one of the best in recent years, with more than 85,000 visitors from the U.S. in the area over the three weeks of the vacation period. City beaches, streets, hotels, and restaurants were notably packed over the popular U.S. Spring vacations, particularly over […]
Juan Francisco “Gallito” Estrada, prodigal boxing son of Puerto Peñasco, made his way to the Yucatan last Sunday, where he’s completing final training before facing off against Filipino opponent Froilan Saludar this Saturday, March 28th at the Poliforum Zamna. Once again, now in Merida, el Gallito will work to defend his flyweight World Boxing Association […]
Contributor Puerto Peñasco Chamber of Commerce Office On Friday, March 13th, CANACO President Guillermo Muñoz Fierro met with Engineer José Luis Villalobos Jimenéz, current Director of Public Projects at City Hall. It was stated that paving work currently underway on Blvd. Benito Juarez along the stretch from the anchor to the Old Port entrance will […]
Though not specifically a tourist service, a new company will soon begin to operate flights twice a week between Puerto Peñasco – Hermosillo, confirms Héctor Vázquez del Mercado, President of the Puerto Peñasco Convention and Visitors Bureau (OCV). The aerial service will be carried out by the company Servicios Aéreos MIRA, based out of Aguascalientes, […]
In recent days pelicans have been seen walking along city streets. This unusual situation is understood by some as nature’s way of pointing to an upcoming natural event. Curiously, a quake registering 4.9 on the Richter scale, with epicenter in the Gulf of California, took place at 4:53 a.m. on Wednesday, March 11th 133 kilometers […]
Spring Break 2015, which kicks off in Puerto Peñasco this Friday March 6th and goes through March 22nd, is being met with positive expectations. The Puerto Peñasco Convention and Visitors Bureau (OCV) foresees full occupancy for beachfront hotels and condos during the second weekend of Spring Break (March 13th – 15th). In addition, expectations for […]
Given the upcoming arrival of thousands of vacationers for Spring Break and Semana Santa, the local administration has once again begun work to fill in pot holes along the Caborca-Puerto Peñasco highway, which has remained abandoned by the Local Road Board of the State. The disastrous state of the highway at the southern access to […]
For the next two months, each time you stop in at a local Circle K you’ll have the opportunity to donate to ongoing work to finish equipping Puerto Peñasco’s first Dialysis Center. Under the emblem “Rounding up your purchase, We’ll make a difference” the local Office on Integral Family Development (DIF) has joined up with […]
The Puerto Peñasco Mar de Cortés Rotary Club has been quite active in town since the reinstatement of Rotary Club International here last summer. In addition to a large fundraising event held in late September to launch the Club’s presence in Puerto Peñasco, the Puerto Peñasco Mar de Cortés Rotary Club has hosted several health […]
Starting at just about City Hall, construction signs notify drivers to the beginning of roadwork 200 meters ahead. Once there, additional arrows direct two-way traffic along a stretch of Blvd. Benito Juarez recently pulled up from about the anchor to the Terranova offices. City officials remark work along this stretch will take place generally from […]
Technical difficulties that impede monitoring of electric wind generator from Spain is reason why wind farm is yet to function. For those asking why the large “fan” located in Sandy Beach is not working, though it was officially inaugurated with the goal of benefiting more than 10,500 people in the state while cutting down on […]
For nearly 15 years, each month the Rocky Point Medical Clinics have set up shop in different spots across Puerto Peñasco under the watchful eyes of Dr. George Stavros and his wife Susie. The 2015 schedule continues this weekend, Feb. 21st, in an area of San Rafael where the group was recently granted a building […]
On February 12, the Sonora State Commission for the Protection of Health Risks issued an alert prohibiting the fishing, commercialization, and consumption of bivalve mollusks. This includes oysters, clams, mussels, snailfish, scallops, geoduck, pustulose ark shell, and “tichidas”. This closure was initiated after biological studies by the Secretary of Health along the coasts of Puerto […]
On Tuesday, February 10th, work began on pulling up asphalt along the extension of Blvd. Benito Juarez stretching from the “Anchor” monument up to Calle Lauro Contreras (heading toward the Old Port) as part of modernization work on the dock area of the anticipated “tourism circuit.” Public Projects Director Heberto Reyna explains there was a […]
From late on Sunday, Feb. 8th and through 3 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 9th, local gas stations in Puerto Peñasco were closed in a sign of solidarity with numerous community members who have been voicing their protest against the high gas prices. Although Puerto Peñasco is considered to be a border region and zone in […]