Platanitos
Playa Platanitos a small beach town in the Mexican state of Nayarit.
Playa Platanitos a small beach town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. In the municipality of Compostela It is located about 20 miles south of San Blas and a few miles from the beach Las Tortugas meaning turtle. With its restaurants, small hotels and warm waters, Platanitos brings several thousand tourists each year. It is popular with intermediate surfers for its sand bottom river mouth break and northwesterly swell. More advanced surfers prefer Caleta, which is accessible only by boat. Nearby is the compound of Punto Custodio, a housing complex mainly used by Americans.
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Getting to Platanitos
- Airports
- Puerto Vallarta (PVR), 98 km · Guadalajara (GDL), 205 km · General Rafael Buelna (MZT), 226 km
- Puerto Vallarta → Platanitos116 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · MX$200–270
- Guadalajara → Platanitos139 km · quickest by road, 3h 57m · MX$190–255
- Mazatlàn → Platanitos288 km · quickest by road, 6h 11m · MX$315–420
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No local-transport research exists yet for Platanitos
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Platanitos. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Platanitos
Platanitos is 9 km from Tepic, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.