ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 captured Acapulco, Mexico.
Acapulco de Juárez is a city and major seaport in the state of Guerrero on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, 380km south of Mexico City. Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico’s history. The city is one of Mexico’s oldest beach resorts, coming into prominence in the 1940s through the 1960s as a getaway for Hollywood stars and millionaires. Acapulco was once a popular tourist resort, but due to a massive upsurge in gang violence and homicide numbers since 2014, Acapulco no longer attracts many foreign tourists, and most now only come from Mexico itself. Acapulco features a tropical wet and dry climate (Köppen: Aw): hot with distinct wet and dry seasons, with more even temperatures between seasons than resorts farther north in Mexico, but this varies depending on altitude.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: Copernicus EU’s Tweet
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