Flight over Manzanillo

David Dagoli from La Manzailla got a ride in a two-seater plane and flew around Tenacatita Bay, down to the Colima volcano and back through Manzanillo. That  is downtown this side of the two piers, the green patch below is the lagoon and Santiago Bay in the background.

Santiago arroyo overflowed into town

Manzanillo, Col.- Because of the heavy rains Thursday night and Friday morning the Santiago arroyo overflowed.

The flooding reached the main garden of the delegation, which was full of mud, and while the water level has begun to fall, still covers much of the first frame of the delegation.

No major damage was reported in nearby houses, to channel the stream, which literally overflowed from early morning.

Civil Protection and Municipal Police maintain an operational monitoring riverbed.

So far, no families evacuated from this area of ​​the city are reported.

Tunnel machine arrives Puerto de Manzanillo

The most important part of the tunneling machine for the train tunnel Línea 3 del Tren Ligero in Guadalajara finally arrive from Spain. The tunnel is for underground rapid transit in the center of the city.

The machine will be 120 meters long and the size of the cutting head more than 11 meters across; the weight of the equipment is just over one thousand five hundred tons. The TBM is a German technology associated with Spanish, "which has a lot of experience in building systems of its kind in Europe and part of Asia," said González Ortiz.

Red Tide in Manzanillo

April 18, 2015

* The prohibition of selling is maintained or consume bivalve molluscs

The Ministry of Health and Welfare reported that the continued presence of toxic red tide in the bays of Manzanillo, so the ban on the marketing and consumption of bivalve molluscs is maintained, in order to avoid health risks of the population .

Derived from the operatives carried out jointly by the State Commission for Protection against Health Risks, COESPRIS with the Sixth Naval Region, through the Oceanographic Institute of the Pacific in Manzanillo, was verified with the sampling and analysis of sea water that remains that harmful algal bloom (HAB) in that part of the coast of Colima.

Therefore, said the injunction not to consume or sell bivalve molluscs such as oysters, clams, scallops and scallop margarita from wild harvest and / or stored at sea and estuaries that have detected the red tide, continue to whereas the results of the samples to determine the disappearance of the phenomenon.

Dependence recommended that people refrain from acquiring and consuming product sold in the street and beachfront by poachers and vendors; if so, go to places formally established and regulated by the health authority.

Also, he pointed out that in the case of people with open wounds and abrasions with susceptible skin, eye and upper respiratory tract and ear problems should refrain from entering the sea.

Finally, he mentioned that if you have tingling in the lips, numbness, diarrhea and abdominal pain, it is necessary that affected immediately come to medical attention and report if consumed oysters, clams or other shellfish 2 valves (shells).

National Manzanillo Sport Fishing Tournament

59th National Manzanillo Sport Fishing Tournament 2015

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Sport Fishing Manzanillo AC invites you to participate in the 59th National Sports Manzanillo Fishing Tournament 2015 which will be held from 6 to 8 February 2015 in Marina Las Hadas Manzanillo Colima.

Do not Miss It!

Registration:
$ 10,500.00 MN (Team 4 anglers with one cane each.)

* Promotion:
Register before January 16 to enter the Raffle Go-Pro cameras

Awards:
1st place .- $ 100,000.00 MN
2nd lugar.- $ 50,000.00 MN
3rd lugar.- $ 25,000.00 MN
4th lugar.- four rods and reels
5th lugar.- 2 rods and reels
6th lugar.- Reed
7th lugar.- Reel

Special surprises !!


• Friday February 6, 2015:
Registration and Enrollment teams and fishermen in Marina del Hotel The fairies 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 pm


Further Information:
Address: San Pedrito s / ??n, Col. Bureaucrat, Manzanillo, Col. CP 28250
Tel. (314) 332-7399
Email: pescamanzanillo@hotmail.com

African bees kill old man near Chandiablo

Africanized bees kill old man

A farm worker was killed and two others, father and son, were injured when attacked by bees when they cleaned a road near Chandiablo in Manzanillo. According to the Director of Municipal Civil Protection, Guadalupe Tene Rodriguez, the deceased is Isaac Jimenez Campa, 73 years old. Jesus Valladares the father is hospitalized in serious condition while his son of the same name, is out of danger. 

He said the incident took place around 11:40 am yesterday when the laborers cleaned a ditch that is located next to the creek Chandiablo. He added that once reported the situation, the Colima police arrived and cordoned off the area pending forensic personnel and prosecutors.

Matan abejas africanizadas a anciano

Ola Brisa Gardens - Manzanillo

I've never been to this place in fact I first I heard of it a month or so ago. You can't just drop in but need an appointment.  The contact info and cost can be found on their website below. They have a number of videos but they don't cover the subjects well and are secretive about where they are shot. Only a maybe visit for me someday. I do take issue with their claim that it's the foremost botanical garden on Mexico’s Central Pacific because the Botanical Garden just south of Vallarta has really matured and is open to drop-ins.

Eco/Adventure/Nature Tours are by appointment, as otherwise Tommy and Jose may be off somewhere “in the interior” searching for new plant specimens or out in the mountains investigating new areas to explore.

We enjoy sharing, with visitors, all manner of our wonderful locale on singular – or multiple – adventures. Allow us to arrange everything:  Your pick-up and delivery, full explanation during the tour(s) of choice(s) from “SITES AND SIGHTS” and – along the way or following – a selection of excellent places to eat. Whatever your preference – wonderful “food of the people in local environs” or in one of the more “gringoized” area eateries – we are familiar with most of them!  Should you wish to undertake these culinary experiences on your own feel free to use the restaurant reviews of “TOMMY’S TUMMY” as a guide or let us arrange the experience for you.

In fact, if interested, let us design a several day experience you will never forget – to include native meals and enjoyable treks outside of the urban areas not offered by conventional, commercial tour agencies.

Accordingly, please call or e-mail us in order that all can be fully in order to ensure your experience(s) with us are the best possible.

Ola Brisa Gardens

Police need conservation training

Tourist captures video of police throwing turtle eggs into the sea

It’s turtle season on many Mexican beaches, which brings thousands of sea turtles ashore to lay their eggs — and numerous thieves to steal them. But it’s not often you see someone tossing them away.

A tourist out for a stroll on the beach Las Brisas in Manzanillo, Colima, this week came across a municipal police officer doing just that, and caught the event on film. A second officer on the scene, on becoming aware of the visitor with his camera, ordered him to stop filming.

The cameraman replied that he was in a public place, had the right to film and offered that he intended to upload the video to Facebook. Meanwhile, as this discussion is taking place, the other officer continues to remove eggs from the nest, examine them briefly, and then throw them in the sea.

Tourist captures video of police throwing turtle eggs into the sea

Hurricane Cristina effects the Colima coast

Large waves caused by Hurricane Cristina endanger the playas La Boquita de Miramar, Manzanillo, y El Paraíso, Armería. A number a beach palapas have been damaged as well as other ocean side structures. It seems 3 cocodrilos preferred the ocean over the lagoon and were seen swimming in playa Miramar.

Hurricane Hunter at Manzanillo airport May 5th

Colima, Col. - To generate awareness of the risks posed by weather events, the Hurricane Hunter aircraft will arrive at the International Airport Playa de Oro Manzanillo (ZLO),  from the United States.

The director of the National Water Commission (Conagua) in Colima, José Juan Michel, said the journey that makes the plane of the U.S. Navy shows the public the tools, equipment and instruments they have.

The general public may visit from 12 noon to 6 pm.

He said this is a very important tool from the neighboring United States, to promote the culture of the Civil Protection and to raise public awareness of what we are generating, and perhaps involuntarily, causing climate changes not only in the country but worldwide. 

Arribará avión Caza Huracanes de EU a aeropuerto de Manzanillo

53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron

403rd Wing, Air Force Reserve Command

Keesler Air Force Base, Biloxi, Mississippi

The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, known as the Hurricane Hunters of the Air Force Reserve, is the only Department of Defense organization still flying into tropical storms and hurricanes – since 1944. The ten Lockheed-Martin WC-130J aircraft and crews are part of the 403rd Wing, based at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Mississippi.

** The Hurricane Hunters are part of the Air Force .... not the Navy

58th Annual Manzanillo fishing tournament

Register your team and compete in the tournament. Feburary 7, 8, and 9 at the Las Hadas Resort

Sport Fishing Manzanillo

Torneo de Pesca Las Hadas

The International Torneo de Pesca will be held this weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday out of the beautiful "Las Hadas Resort and Marina" in Manzanillo. It is the 60th annual tourney for Club Pesca de Manzanillo. There are over 50 teams entered so far. Weigh in is by 5pm each day. So if you are not doing anything and want to see some nice boats, sponsor booths and fish stop by and have a drink and enjoy Las Hadas and the event...

Manzanillo Airport Closed

Not much to say except that access to the Manzanillo Airport (ZLO) was cutoff again when the Marabasco River overflowed it's banks last night and this morning. The tail end of Tropical Storm Manuel dumped many inches of rain on the area Monday night and Tuesday morning.   Not raining now but no word on when it will open.

Airport access road

Tropical Storm Warning

Off Mexico's Pacific coast, Tropical Storm Manuel has maximum sustained winds of 45 mph (75 kph). It's 150 miles (245 kilometers) off Lazaro Cardenas and 255 miles (410 kilometers) south-southeast of Manzanillo. A tropical storm warning is in effect from Acapulco to Manzanillo.

Tropical Storm Manuel 

Tropical Storms Ingrid and Manuel: Extreme Rainfall Threats for Mexico

At the same time that Ingrid is making landfall, Tropical Storm Manuel will be bringing similar rainfall amounts to the other side of Mexico. This morning's 2 am EDT run of the experimental GFDL ensemble model predicted that a large area of Mexico is at high risk of 8+ inches of rain due to the combined effects of Ingrid and Manuel. The greatest danger is on the Pacific side in Oaxaca State, where the combined effects of the circulations of the two storms will pull a flow of very moist air upwards over the mountains, creating torrential rains. The Mexican Weather Service has already received a report of about 8 inches of rain in eastern Mexican state of Oaxaca due to Manuel's rains. The massive rains that will fall in Mexico from this one-two punch of extremely wet tropical storms will cause an extremely dangerous and expensive flood disaster in Mexico.

Mexico Touts Increase in Power Generating Capacity

MEXICO CITY – President Enrique Peña Nieto touted a nearly 2,000-MW increase in the installed capacity of Mexico’s electricity system.

He made his remarks at the Manuel Alvarez Moreno thermoelectric complex, which is located in the Pacific port of Manzanillo and has recently seen its power generating capacity boosted by 1,413 MW.

Now with total installed capacity of 2,754 MW, equivalent to the electrical energy demand of the Mexican capital, that complex is the second largest nationwide, Peña Nieto said.

In addition, he said three new electrical plants began operating Wednesday: an internal combustion facility in Baja California Sur, a combined-cycle natural gas plant in Chihuahua and a geothermal plant in Puebla.

Mexico Touts Increase in Power Generating Capacity

Manzanillo Thermometric is polluting 80% less

The Thermoelectric plant upgrade has been completed  in the first stage, so that instead of generating 1,200 MW as it did earlier, today it generates 2,700 MW with a reduction in emissions of 80%. 

The Central in its past had four generating units, later six and all used fuel oil. The new combined cycle plants are turbine based using liquefied gas from the regasification. 

The project was formed with four modules, the first and the second burn liquefied at 100%, the third module was suitable for conversion to burn gas or fuel oil or a combination of both, the fourth module is pending for conversion and possible upgrade. 

It's worth remembering that In 1982, José López Portillo, President of the Republic at the time, opened this plant that delivered an installed generating capacity of 1,200 MW, then the intervention of then-President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, built a second stage was called Manzanillo Two consisting of two 350 MW generating units, using fuel oil as fuel.

Termo right now is ready to meet the President on Wednesday 14, to commission the re empowerment of this plant which makes it the largest of its kind in all of Latin America. 

Termoeléctrica deja de contaminar 80%

Nice dive video from Aquatic Sports and Adventures

Published on Jul 4, 2013
Aquatic Sports and Adventures dive at Club de Yates in Manzanillo Mexico. Good conditions and warm water.

Navy rescues vessel off Jalisco coast

Manzanillo, Colima | Tuesday June 25, 2013

Elements of the Sixth Naval Region Ministry of the Navy of Mexico ( Semar )  rescued one shrimp boat that was in danger of sinking in the vicinity of the coast of Barra de Navidad, Jalisco .

The official spokesperson on this port Semar Colima, Lieutenant Wendy Murillo Band, announced that the rescue operation was conducted by the Naval Station Search and Rescue Manzanillo (ENSAR) military dependency.

Reported that rescue operations began when he received a call from the Port of Manzanillo, Colima, to report that the vessel "UNICAP XI", belonging to the Cooperative Fish Production Alexander Von Humboldt, SC of RL and CV, based Colima is in this port, had a leak and was in danger of sinking.

In response, immediately Defender sailed a boat type, belonging to the said naval station, to provide the required support to the use of a pump to evacuate water and an expert swimmer, who proceeded to perform subsea work in order to locate the source of the leak and fix it temporarily.

On arrival of the vessel of the Navy, the captain and crew of the damaged shrimper were about to abandon ship as lost.

However, the timely intervention of elements of the Sixth Naval Region, and we controlled the situation, the boat with five crew on board was towed to the port of Barra de Navidad, Jalisco, where he was received by their owners.

Marina rescata embarcación en costa de Jalisco

Japanese Navy arrives in Manzanillo

The ship Kashima and training Maritime Self-Defense Force of Japan arrived yesterday at the port of Manzanillo, where Gov. Mario Anguiano Moreno welcomed them.

Accompanied by Ambassador of that country, Suchiro Megata, the president said Colima port is vital for the future of Mexico's relations with Japan. 

Mario Anguiano said that Japan is the second largest export destination from Mexico through the port of Manzanillo.

Llega a Manzanillo Fuerza Marítima de Autodefensa de Japón

Property disputes: Buyer beware in Mexico

Perched on a hillside overlooking Manzanillo Bay, Puerto Las Hadas would seem to offer everything a Canadian could want in a getaway: sun, beaches and an ocean view.

But for dozens of Canadians, mostly from Alberta and B.C., who have bought units in the 204-unit complex, Puerto Las Hadas also comes with a property dispute that has put their ownership rights in question and remains unresolved after several years of attempted litigation.

According to several owners and a lawyer in Mexico who is representing some of them in court, a Mexican judge in 2009 cancelled folio numbers – which are used to register property in Mexico – for properties lining Manzanillo Bay, including Puerto Las Hadas. That ruling left owners with access to their waterfront homes but without clear property rights.

Manzanillo - Property disputes: Buyer beware in Mexico