1900s

During the last ten years of the 1800s and the ten years of the 1900s, thanks to the combined efforts of the people and the enthusiasm of Don Guadalupe Las Penas gradually progressed.

The discovery of silver in US brought down its price and old prosperity became affliction. The miners from the mountain townships left their newly acquired trade to go back to farming. They chose the fertile Ameca valley, so rich it could produce three corn harvests a year.

Puerto Vallarta and the agricultural valley to the north were important destinations for those leaving the Sierra towns who were looking for a place to settle as mining activities in the Sierra waned in the early 1900s. Many of the new arrivals already had family members living in Puerto Vallarta, turning the town into a collection extended families, confering on it the cohesion of a typical sierra town.

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1800 (Part 3)

At the start of the 1880s, Las Penas had a population of 1,500 inhabitants. New families from San Sebastian and Cuale came to settle in the port. In the middle of the decade, on July 14, 1885, the port was opened to national maritime traffic and officially named Las Penas. On July 23rd, a Maritime Customs Office was established. The next year on October 31, 1886 the town was given official political and judicial standing when decree No. 210 was passed by the State Congress.
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