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Definition of Mazatlan
1. Noun. A port city in western Mexico on the Pacific Ocean; tourist center.
Group relationships: Mexico, United Mexican States
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mazatlan
Literary usage of Mazatlan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"From Mazatlan the route followed was by a waggon road to the village of Presidio or
... This was reached on the evening of the seventh day from Mazatlan. ..."
2. Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to by Bayard Taylor, Thomas Butler King (1850)
"Mazatlan. I TOOK leave of my friends and messmates, receiving many gloomy predictions
... He had just reached Mazatlan, and on his first visit to the shore, ..."
3. Mexico's Pacific Coast by Vivien Lougheed (2004)
"Central Pacific Mexico Mazatlan Heiman Melville, the author of Moby Dick, was in
Mazatlan in the late 1800s for a period of two weeks. ..."
4. Border States of Mexico: Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua and Durango. With a by Leonidas Le Cenci Hamilton (1881)
"The distance from Mazatlan is about 155 miles, and the intervening distance between,
... The architecture and buildings are much the same as at Mazatlan. ..."
5. Central America, the West Indies and South America by Henry Walter Bates, Augustus Henry Keane (1885)
"Mazatlan lies exactly on the tropic of Cancer, and, coming from the north, ...
Seen from the sea, Mazatlan, shaded by lofty palms and gigantic bananas, ..."
6. The other side; or, Notes for the history of the war between Mexico and the by Ramón Alcaraz, Albert C. Ramsey (1850)
"Mazatlan. THE importance which, in our opinion, is due to this article does not
spring from the feat of arms that resulted in the taking of the ports of the ..."
7. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"In December my wife and I went on an expedition to Mazatlan, the port of the
state of Sinaloa on ... The situation of Mazatlan is singularly picturesque. ..."
8. History of California by Theodore Henry Hittell (1898)
"Though they consisted at first, like the Mazatlan troops, of a hundred men, yet
for various causes they had dwindled much more rapidly. ..."
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