Malecon Mosaics - Puerta Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico
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Metro2
N 20° 36.538 W 105° 14.166
13Q E 475399 N 2278889
All along Puerto Vallarta's malecon (boardwalk) appear these odd mosiac creatures made from stone.
Waymark Code: WMJTND
Location: Jalisco, Mexico
Date Posted: 12/30/2013
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Reminiscent of the gigantic Nazca lines in Chile, these mosaics depicts birds, fish and other odd creatures. The coordinates for the Waymark are set at the arches in the main square area of the malecom...but, the creatures can be seen on much of the boardwalk. This website has an excellent photo (near the center of the page (
visit link) of one of the mosaics and informs us:
"The boardwalk has a number of intricate designs-mosaics which were drawn up by
Jalisco-born Fidencio Benítez Sánchez, a prominent Huichol (Wixarika) artist, and carefully laid out by workers
using a traditional technique with drowned river stone-pebbles in cement wash.
Fidencio Benitez has received a Mexican National Prize of Arts and Sciences.
Some of the Hucihol motifs that adorn the New Malecon and their significance include:
the snake which is the queen of the sea; scorpions, the queens of the rain and caretakers of the desert;
the shark representing the sea; and the human element is the shaman who speaks with the gods.
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