Guaymas Airfares (GYM) - Mexico

Guaymas, Mexico - City Overview and Airfare Information

Guaymas

Guaymas (formally: Heróico Puerto Guaymas de Zaragoza) is a port city in the Mexican state of Sonora. It stands on a small bay on the Gulf of California, near the mouth of the Río Yaqui, south of state capital Hermosillo and north of Ciudad Obregón. It serves as the administrative centre for the surrounding municipality of the same name, and for the neighborhood San Carlos Nuevo Guaymas, Sonora. Guaymas reported a population of 101,507 in the 2005 census, while its municipality had 134,153.

Guaymas is the second-largest port on Mexico's Pacific Coast (after Manzanillo). It is one of the major shrimp producing cities of northern Mexico and was formerly a major oyster producer, although pollution and overfishing have depleted its stocks greatly.

In a tradition dating back to 1888, one of Mexico's liveliest carnivals takes place on the waterfront every spring.

• Guaymas was the destination of the ill-fated small airplane in Family Flight, a 1972 TV movie (starring Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill, Kristoffer Tabori and Janet Margolin) about a family of four whose plane came down in the Baja California desert during a thunderstorm; the family cleared a runway in a desperate bid to fly out and never actually reached Guaymas on this trip.

• In the alternate history novel How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove, the Confederate States of America acquire Guaymas together with the states of Sonora and Chihuahua, from an impoverished Mexican Empire. This is a causus belli that sparks the Second Mexican War between the United States and the CSA.

• 27°58′N 110°58′W

• Link to tables of population data from Census of 2005 INEGI: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática