San Pancho, Riviera Nayarit, Mexico

Bird Canyon

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Live in the best of both worlds in your beautiful luxury teak bungalow amid the trees one-quarter mile from our beach and in a great location to explore the adjacent beach just one mile down a beautiful jungle road.

Wake to the noisy chattering of chachalacas, arucas and green parrots and a bright Mexican sun rising over the coastal Sierra Madre mountains to the east.

All houses are fully equipped and have all the services for your comfort.

Golondrina

Casa Golondrina, the smallest of the Teak bungalows, is a stilt bungalow built ten feet on top of nine 30 year-old teak tree trunks bridging a small draw between towering palm trees and luxurious banana plants.

Cenzontle

Casa Cenzontle (zen ZONT lee), a two-story bungalow, stands proudly among the trees on the upper side of the canyon with a majestic view of the entire canyon and mountains beyond. Its fine kitchen, living room with sofa-bed and full deck with lounge chairs and dining table are on the first floor.

Chachalaca

Casa Chachalaca (cha cha LA ca), on the upper canyon level, is an intimate sister to Casa Cenzontle, but with privacy and discrete separation. It has the same elegance and quality throughout but, in addition, has a bedroom deck with incomparable view. The teak bed is a canopied queen for intimate comfort.

Calandria

Casa Calandria (ka lan drEE a), a two-story bungalow, stands nestled among the trees on the lower part of the canyon with a great view of a majestic stand of palm trees. Its fine kitchen, living room with sofa-bed and full deck with lounge chairs and dining table are on the first floor.

Trogon

Casa Trogon (tr-owe g-OWN), a two-story bungalow, sits on a knoll among the trees on the lower part of the canyon with a great view of the lower canyon and a majestic stand of palm trees. Its fine kitchen, living room with sofa-bed and full deck with lounge chairs and dining table are on the first floor.

Eco-Electric Golf Carts

Ride down the winding cobblestone road to the main hotel beach in your electric cart and enjoy the view, the smell of the jungle and sea and the sounds of nature.

Please note that the golf carts are not authorized to go to town, however, Sayulita’s main plaza is only a mile away from Bird Canyon which makes it a leisurely 20 minute walk.

Website

Playa Escondida – Secluded private beachfront hotel in Sayulita Nayarit, Mexico. Perfect hideaway cove nested in lush jungle, close to nature yet comfortable with all amenities. The best hotel in Sayulita, Riviera Nayarit, also offers SPA and restaurant, top rated sayulita hotel in TripAdvisor. Website

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San Pancho Hospital General

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The Hospital General San Francisco, under the direction of Dr. Reynaldo Saucedo y Andrade, is the largest regional facility between Puerto Vallarta and Tepic. This would be a remarkable facility for a small town of 2,200 people, in any country. The hospital has at its service 38 physicians, 23 of whom are specialists in fields such as:

Internal medicine
Surgery and anesthesiology
Pediatrics
Obstetrics and gynecology
Emergency medicine

60% of Hospital General San Francisco physicians speak English. Payments (which are moderate by US standards) are on a sliding scale based, in part, on socioeconomic studies.

The hospital can accommodate 70 visits in the morning and 20 in the afternoon, while also taking care of 39 acute-care patients. Drop-in wait times average 5-10 minutes for acute care, 30 minutes for a consultation, and 50-60 minutes to see a specialist. The phone number for the hospital is (322) 258-407

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Cafe del Mar

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Cafe Del Mar – San Pancho, Nayarit

Amandine is the beautiful owner of Café del Mar and she hails from France. At her restaurant she offers a wide selection of exquisite tropical food from around the world. Café del Mar exists in a very simple, but elegant setting. The atmosphere and music will transfer you to another dimension. In Café del Mar we have the privilege to enjoy intimate shows such as flamenco dancing, contemporary dance, reggae music and jazz. You can see the exhibits of many of our local artists on display at Café del Mar. The chef is a rare talent from Singapore and his Asian flavors are bold and elegant. He will absolutely knock your socks off. Maybe the best unknown resturant on the north Shore.

Cafe del Mar Calle China #9
Tel: 01 311 258 4251
cafedelmarsanpancho@gmail.com
Dinner only; closed Wed.

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Mar Plata

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Mar Plata Review

Decor is nonchalant yet sophisticated and so, come to think of it, is the waitstaff. Impressive second-story digs have views of the sea as well as a celestial seasoning of stars on the ceiling in the form of tin lamps from Guadalajara. Dark-blue and deep terra-cotta walls juxtapose nicely; the huge space is saved from looking industrial by innovative installations and fixtures. Heavy old wood doors are transformed to tabletops, chairs are mismatched, and floors are poured of untreated cement. Co-owner and chef Amadine Darmstaedter’s recipes wed traditional Argentine meats with updated Continental cuisine in a happy transcontinental marriage. Portions are smallish, and entrées exclude sides. There’s live music Sunday and occasional flamenco shows or tango classes.

Contact Information

Address: Calle de Palmas 130, Col. Costa Azul, San Francisco, 63729
Phone: 311/258-4424

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Info : San Pancho

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San Francisco, AKA San Pancho Nayarit

San Pancho from Arnoldo Redondo on Vimeo.		San Francisco, or San Pancho as it is more commonly referred to, is a quaint Mexican village nestled between the verdant Sierra Madre Mountains and jungle and a long stretch of pristine Pacific coast. In close enough proximity (hour drive) to the international airport at Puerto Vallarta, yet full of small town appeal, San Pancho is being proclaimed as one of the next great destinations in the so-called Riviera Nayarita, and as another desirable alternative to the more commercialized vacation typical of resort areas like Puerto Vallarta. Geography San Francisco is situated along the vast Pacific coastline pertaining to the Mexican state of Nayarit. The entire state of Nayarit is located below the Tropic of Cancer, and therefore San Francisco experiences a truly tropical, hot and humid, climate.

SAN PANCHO’S LOCATION
San Pancho’s to Puerto Vallarta “PVR” (25 miles) allows us to enjoy the amenities of one of Mexico’s most popular tourist resort towns, but the ability to scurry back here at the day’s end to the tranquility that defines San Pancho.There are approximately 200 North Americans who have built homes here and spend 5 to 6 months here each winter. These new homes provide income opportunities for the growing number of local Mexicans. Not only did the locals build them, they now have on-going employment as house-keepers, gardeners, pool maintenance, house painters, plumbers, cooks, etc. A typical unskilled or domestic worker in San Pancho earns an average of $10-$12 a day and works six days a week.
SAN PANCHO, MEXICO HISTORYIn the early stages of San Pancho’s development , the story goes that the town evolved out of a hacienda and later communal ejidal territory into a humble fishing village still named after the patron saint San Francisco. For decades, the handful of families that made up the town fished for their subsistence, and raised livestock and local fruit crops. The development of San Pancho, Mexico would have continued slowly and unremarkably–in step with all the other pueblos along the Bahía de Banderas coast–if the President of Mexico had not taken a special interest in the town during his term that lasted from 1970 to 1976.After a visit to San Pancho, and the construction of what was once his family’s vacation mansion Vista Mágica, Luis Echeverría became very invested in the unique development of the town. During his term, President Echeverría adopted San Pancho as the site for his particular vision of a “third world” “self-sufficient” model town. As a result of his special interest, funds were poured into the humble village that at the time did not even have electricity. Nonetheless, an infrastructure was constructed. Roads were laid and proper housing was built for the small population of fishermen and farmers. Not to mention schools, a fishing museum, industrial factory, and modern fully-equipped hospital were all constructed and inaugurated by the president as part of his dream of turning San Pancho into a “university of the Third World”. While the factory that processed local fruits went on to provide jobs for the community well on into the 1980s, the rest of Echeverría’s vision for San Pancho was brought to an abrupt halt with the end of his presidential term and the miserable state of the Mexican economy at his term’s end. Consequently, the ventures the President had proposed failed, and San Pancho drifted back into a drowsy tranquility. The fishing museum that had once housed perhaps the largest palapa in Mexico and was graced with elegant fountains, shortly fell into disrepair. Once the fruit processing plants closed down, and the “university” building went vacant without any students or professors to fill it, the overgrown tropical vegetation reclaimed the new developments and San Pancho went back to its sleepy existence. The town’s inhabitants went back to fishing and growing fruit, and with San Pancho still hard to reach, little changed. Yet with the cobblestone streets, schools, and fully-functioning hospital, San Pancho still remained clearly unique and desirable, and in recent years has received the interest of an increased amount of tourists especially as a 2nd-home destination. Development in San Pancho, Mexico has still been much slower than that of the neighboring towns to the South, partly due to the fact that there is still no reliable bus service that reaches the town, and the beaches’ strong undertow does not lend towards water sports. Yet those two apparent negative attributes have had the oppositely positive effect of allowing San Pancho to develop as a genuine alternative to the mass-market holiday options, and therefore to attract a very special and eclectic international group of residents and visitors.

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Vallarta Transfers

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Health & Wellbeing

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Find Hospitals, healthcare, gyms, yoga

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Taxis, buses, shuttles, vans, airport pick up

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San Pancho, Riviera Nayarit, Mexico

Bird Canyon

Live in the best of both worlds in your beautiful luxury teak bungalow amid the trees one-quarter mile from our beach and in a great location to explore the adjacent beach just one mile down a beautiful jungle road.

Golondrina

Cenzontle

Chachalaca

Calandria

Trogon

Eco-Electric Golf Carts

Website

San Pancho Hospital General

Cafe del Mar

Mar Plata

Mar Plata Review

Contact Information

Info : San Pancho

San Francisco, AKA San Pancho Nayarit

Geography

SAN PANCHO’S LOCATION

Vallarta Transfers

Health & Wellbeing