Acapulco

[ak-uh-pool-koh, ah-kah-pool-kaw]

noun

1. a seaport and resort in SW Mexico, on the Pacific.

Acapulco

/ akaˈpulko, ˌækəˈpʊlkəʊ /

noun

1. Official name: Acapulco de Juárez. a port and resort in SW Mexico, in Guerrero state. Pop: 761 000 (2005 est)

Acapulco

1. City on Mexico's Pacific coast.

A fashionable resort known for its beaches and water sports, which include cliff diving.

Example Sentences

Coast Guard, it conducted a search-and-rescue operation 400 miles south of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco.

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Diners — white, Black, Latino, Asian, Muslim — cheered as divers twisted and turned off a 30-foot fake waterfall into a small pool every 20 minutes in an homage to Acapulco’s famous clavadistas.

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The Cuauhtémoc left Acapulco, Mexico, on 6 April on a tour that included stops in New York and Aberdeen, Scotland, for the city's Tall Ships race in July.

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Born in the coastal resort of Acapulco, his parents took him to the US when he was just six-months-old.

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According to local paper El Sol de Acapulco, the judge had been in charge of the court which dealt with murders, kidnappings and car thefts.

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