MAZATLAN MEXICO

“The Pearl of the Pacific” Mazatlan (pronounced Mazitlawn) is a city over half a million people. It is located on a long flat stretch of the Pacific Ocean, just to the South of the Tropic of Cancer and due east of the Tip of the Baja Peninsula. It is here that the cool waters of the Pacific Ocean meet those of the warm shallow Gulf of California. Your might think of Mazatlan as having one foot in the tropics and the other in the dryer desert climate to the North. Mazatlan Boasts some of the best year round climate in Mexico and the world. Among Mexican destinations Mazatlan represents one of the shortest and least expensive flights from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver and Calgary. America West Airlines, West Jet, Alaska, Continental, Aeromexico and Mexicana are few of the airlines currently providing service to Mazatlan.