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Close ✕Acapulco
A deep, sheltered bay on the Pacific coast of New Spain, chosen as the American terminus of the galleon route for exactly that reason and otherwise remote from everything.
16.9, -99.8 · approximate · galleon terminus 1565 – 1815
On the world
- A place in: Age of Exploration · 8 places
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Connections
- is connected to of The Manila galleon (Nao de China) — Acapulco was the American terminus, from which Asian cargo crossed Mexico overland to the Atlantic fleet at Veracruz.
Mission history61 missions · 1959 → 2026 · 2 planned
1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld pending verification) · 865 unlocated · No relief basemap · marks drawn only from sourced coordinates