Oaxaca · Mexico
Puerto Ángel
A small Oaxacan fishing port that once shipped the state's coffee.
- Population
- 2,440 (2005)
- Busiest port in Oaxaca
- 1870
Then
- 1850s
A wharf built through Benito Juárez's efforts founds the town for coffee and lumber.
- 1870
It is the busiest port in Oaxaca.
- 1960s
Highway 175 is paved and tourists arrive.
- 1997
Hurricane Pauline makes landfall here on October 8.
Now
Fishing comes first, with tourism second.