Pie de la Cuesta, Guerrero

Pie de la Cuesta is a small beach resort town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, approximately 5 miles north-west of Acapulco, and it is the location of a military base of the Mexican Air Force. Cave paintings from 1.200 BC and petroglyphs have been discovered. They indicate the early presence of fishing settlements, with agriculture and hunting as secondary activities. Nobel-prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has stated in interviews that the initial inspiration for writing his famous novel One Hundred Years of Solitude took place in the mid-1960's while driving the 10 kilometers from Acapulco to Pie de la Cuesta. In the 1970's, when José López Portillo was President, the Judicial Police of Guerrero assesinated at least 143...