Acapulco is a city in which Mexican state?

Acapulco is a city in the Mexican state of Guerrero, on the Pacific coast.

Officially called Acapulco de Juárez, the city sits on a deep, semicircular bay and is the largest city in Guerrero. It is also the municipal seat of the municipality of Acapulco, one of Guerrero’s 81 municipalities. The state capital, Chilpancingo, is a different city located inland.

Acapulco became internationally important during the Spanish colonial period because it was the American endpoint of the Manila–Acapulco galleon trade. Ships carried Asian goods across the Pacific from Manila, in the Philippines, before continuing overland into New Spain. That history helped make Acapulco one of Mexico’s best-known ports.

The name Acapulco comes from Nahuatl and is commonly interpreted as referring to reeds being destroyed or washed away. “De Juárez” honors Benito Juárez, Mexico’s former president. Today, Acapulco remains famous for its bay, beaches, resort history, and cliff divers at La Quebrada.