San Blas, Nayarit
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Date: 2022-01-12

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San Blas is both a municipality and municipal seat located on the Pacific coast of Mexico in Nayarit.
San Blas is a port and popular tourist destination, located about 160 kilometres （99 mi） north of Puerto Vallarta, and 64 kilometres （40 mi） west of the state capital Tepic, and three hours drive from Guadalajara.
The town has a population of 8,707.
The municipality had a population of 37,478 in 2005.
The Islas Marías, the site of the former Islas Marías Federal Prison, are part of the municipality.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced in 2021 that the former prison would be rehabilitated as the environmental and cultural education center "Muros de Agua-José Revueltas" in honor of the writer who was imprisoned there.
In 1768, the Bourbon Visitador José de Gálvez decided to found the port of San Blas as a jumping off point for military expeditions to Sinaloa, Sonora, Baja California and Alta California.
The military nature of San Blas distinguished it from the commercial port of Acapulco to the south.
A subtext to the founding of San Blas may have been Gálvez' desire to curtail tax evasion on trade with Asia out of Acapulco, which was controlled by businessmen of Mexico City.
Both Acapulco and San Blas tied New Spain to Asia through Manila.
Gálvez also founded a shipyard in San Blas, with the next shipyard being Cavite in the Philippines.
From 1774, navy ships delivered mail from San Blas to Manila.
By tradition, the crew could carry private merchandise, so there was a small commercial subtext to San Blas from its inception In the 1790s, the Bourbon monarchy approved special permits for private ships to sail from Cadiz to San B...