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Puerto Vallarta Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place
Puerto Vallarta is a Mexican beach resort city situated on the Pacific Ocean's Bahía de Banderas. PV or simply Vallarta is the second largest urban agglomeration in the state after the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area. The City of Puerto Vallarta is the government seat of the Municipality of Puerto Vallarta which comprises the city as well as population centers outside of the city extending from Boca de Tomatlán to the Nayarit border (the Ameca River). [from wikipedia]
Ambiance Animals Art For Sale Beaches Burros Bar & Restaurant Bus Stops Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe From Sea Huichol Patterns Murals In Puerto Vallarta People Posters Puerto Vallarta Graffiti Stores Sunset Sail Tattoos Taxicabs Utilities Windows
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Ambiance, of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A feeling or the mood associated with or pervasive in a particular place, person, or thing.[from paraphrased from merriam-webster]

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Animals, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

Animals are traditionally divided by body plan into vertebrates and invertebrates. Vertebrates --fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals-- have a vertebral column (spine); invertebrates do not. All vertebrates and most invertebrates are bilaterally symmetrical (Bilateria). Invertebrates include arthropods, molluscs, roundworms, ringed worms, flatworms, and other phyla in Ecdysozoa and Spiralia.[from wikipedia]

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Art For Sale, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art.[from wikipedia]

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Beaches, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, or cobblestones. The particles can also be biological in origin, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae.[from wikipedia]

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Burros Bar & Restaurant, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

In the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas, a burro is a small donkey. The Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (DAD-IS) of the FAO lists the burro as a specific breed of ass. In Mexico, the donkey population is estimated at three million. There are also substantial burro populations in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.[from wikipedia]

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Bus Stops, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A bus stop is a designated place where buses stop for passengers to board or alight from a bus. The construction of bus stops tends to reflect the level of usage, where stops at busy locations may have shelters, seating, and possibly electronic passenger information systems; less busy stops may use a simple pole and flag to mark the location. Bus stops are, in some locations, clustered together into transport hubs allowing interchange between routes from nearby stops and with other public transport modes to maximize convenience.[from wikipedia]

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Taxicabs, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice. This differs from other modes of public transport where the pick-up and drop-off locations are determined by the service provider, not by the passenger, although demand responsive transport and share taxis provide a hybrid bus/taxi mode.[from wikipedia]

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Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe, known locally as La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, is a church building in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. The church has been called "one of the most endearing" of the city's landmarks. It is open daily, with services in English available on Saturdays and mass in both Spanish and English on Sundays.[from wikipedia]

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From Sea, Views Of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A panoramic view is also purposed for multi-media, cross-scale applications to an outline overview (from a distance) along and across repositories. This so-called "cognitive panorama" is a panoramic view over, and a combination of, cognitive spaces used to capture the larger scale.[from wikipedia]

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Puerto Vallarta Graffiti, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

To help address many of these issues, many local jurisdictions have set up graffiti abatement hotlines, where citizens can call in and report vandalism and have it removed. San Diego?s hotline receives more than 5,000 calls per year, in addition to reporting the graffiti, callers can learn more about prevention. One of the complaints about these hotlines is the response time; there is often a lag time between a property owner calling about the graffiti and its removal. The length of delay should be a consideration for any jurisdiction planning on operating a hotline.[from wikipedia]

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Murals In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

Murals today are painted in a variety of ways, using oil or water-based media. Initiated by the works of mural artists like Graham Rust or Rainer Maria Latzke in the 1980s, trompe-l'oeil painting has experienced a renaissance in private and public buildings in Europe. Today, the beauty of a wall mural has become much more widely available with a technique whereby a painting or photographic image is transferred to poster paper or canvas which is then pasted to a wall surface (see wallpaper, Frescography) to give the effect of either a hand-painted mural or realistic scene.[from wikipedia]

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People, Of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A people is a plurality of persons considered as a whole, as is the case with an ethnic group or nation. Collectively, for example, the contemporary Frisians and Danes are two related Germanic peoples, while various Middle Eastern ethnic groups are often linguistically categorized as Semitic peoples.[from wikipedia]

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Posters, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A poster is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be used for many purposes. They are a frequent tool of advertisers (particularly of events, musicians and films), propagandists, protesters and other groups trying to communicate a message. Posters are also used for reproductions of artwork, particularly famous works, and are generally low-cost compared to the original artwork. The modern poster, as we know it, however, dates back to the 1840s and 1850s when the printing industry perfected color lithography and made mass production possible.[from wikipedia]

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Huichol Patterns, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A paving pattern inspired by the native Huichol. Throughout its abstract figures narrates the story behind the origin of Puerto Vallarta.[from puertovallarta website]

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Stores, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit. Retailers satisfy demand identified through a supply chain. The term "retailer" is typically applied where a service provider fills the small orders of a large number of individuals, who are end-users, rather than large orders of a small number of wholesale, corporate or government clientele. Shopping generally refers to the act of buying products. Sometimes this is done to obtain final goods, including necessities such as food and clothing; sometimes it takes place as a recreational activity.[from wikipedia]

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Sunset Sail, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

The time of sunset is defined in astronomy as the moment when the trailing edge of the Sun's disk disappears below the horizon. Near to the horizon, atmospheric refraction causes the ray path of light from the Sun to be distorted to such an extent that geometrically the Sun's disk is already about one diameter below the horizon when a sunset is observed.[from wikipedia]

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Tattoos, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A tattoo is a form of body modification where a design is made by inserting ink, dyes and pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. Tattoos fall into three broad categories: purely decorative (with no specific meaning); symbolic (with a specific meaning pertinent to the wearer); pictorial (a depiction of a specific person or item).[from wikipedia]

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Utilities, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A public utility (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and regulation ranging from local community-based groups to statewide government monopolies.[from wikipedia]

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Windows, In Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, As A City Place

A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof or vehicle that allows the passage of light, sound, and air. Modern windows are usually glazed or covered in some other transparent or translucent material, a sash set in a frame in the opening; the sash and frame are also referred to as a window. Many glazed windows may be opened, to allow ventilation, or closed, to exclude inclement weather. Windows often have a latch or similar mechanism to lock the window shut or to hold it open by various amounts.[from wikipedia]


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