The palm of coconut (coconuts nucifera) is a native plant of the coasts of the Southern pacific of Asia. It was brought to America by the seafaring Alvaro de Mendaña, who arrive to the port of Santiago of Colima in 1569, originating from the Salomón Islands. With Philippine aid of slaves- calls “Indian Chinese”-, the Spaniards established in Cuyutlan large plantations of coconuts and they learned to make use integral of the plant, therefore of the coconut palm takes advantage of all; the trunk, the leaves or “palapas” and the “angeo”; the mature and tender fruit – copra-, the water, shell or estopa; and inclusive the savia, that is transformed into tuva. in those Old days it was production, “wine of coconuts” – aguardiente distilled of the tuva-, that by its quality was a strong competence for the wines brought from Spain, so much that in 1612 the authorities virreinales decreed the total cut of the palmtrees of Colima; for which by fortune never happened.
From 1871 to 1882 it gave service in the Lagoon of Cuyutlan the called ship of vapor “Colima”, property of Augusto Morril, that transported load and passangers among the Port of Manzanillo and the atracadero of Cuyutlancillo. The “Colima” was a flat platform ship. Average 11 mts. of long by 4.25mts. of wide; and was propulsed for two wheels of palettes, that they permitted to sail to a maximum of 12 kph. Had capacity to carry to 140 “loads of mule” (approximately 16 tons). The rates were of $ 3 pesos per person and 50 cents by each lump of 200 pounds. It could lend service only during the months from June to November, due to that the rest of the year the Lagoon was not the sufficient depth. So that the navigation was impossible all the year, in 1874 the Ing. Resalió Banda project, a channel that would communicate Cuyutlan with the River of Armeria; whose construction did not come to be carried out. Finally, the vapor “Colima” went in disuse with the arrival of the railroad, in 1882.
El colima
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Since the Colony, because of the zafra of salt, during the months from March to May Cuyutlan gived, nonexistent services in other beaches and ports, favoring the affluence of visitors of all the region, that came mainly during the Holy Week. (it still going on to this date). In 1887, the gentlemen Zeferino Pinzon and Narciso Palencia, founded one of the first hotels for tourism that existed in the coast of the northwestern pacific of Mexico, the Hotel Cuyutlan- but late called Hotel Ceballos-. Finally, the opening of the railroad of Guadalajara-Manzanillo went, in 1908, what converted to Cuyutlan in the main spa of all the West region.
