Shortly after the fall of Tenochtitlan, Mexico, D.F., on August 13, 1521, the Spanish conquistadores continued their explorations crossing valleys, mountains and oceans.
By 1525, Garcia de Loaiza had already crossed the Pacific Ocean. However the first Spanish ship that passed by the central Mexican coast in 1527 visited the beautiful bay of Zacatula, Michoacan. That was the brig "Spirit Santo", of the group of three boats ordered by Hernán Cortez and commanded by Alvaro de Saavedra Cerón, cousin of Don Hernando.
Eventually the Spanish ventured up the Costalegre as far as Chamela, which also made for an ideal shelter for their ships, and founded numerous ports between there and Manzanillo.
1564 - All the zone between ports of Navidad and Salagua (Manzanillo) (In line for supply routes to; Autlán, Ameca, Zapotlán, Amula, Tuspa, Tamazula, Guadalajara, Towns of Avalos, etc.) existed from the activities connected with the construction of ships for the trip to the Philippines. On November 21st, 1564, Miguel Lopez Legazpi, with the title of "Adelantado," along with the friar Andrés de Urdaneta, sailed from Puerto de Navidad to colonize an archipelago in the Far East. Legazpi named the archipelago FILIPINAS in honor of Felipe II, then king of Spain. In 1571 he founded Manila as its capital.
A viceroy named it Puerto de Navidad (Port of Christmas), because the Spanish explorers landed on Christmas Day. Since the town he built was on a sandbar, the name was later changed to “Bar of Christmas.” The Spanish conquistadors took advantage of the natural port of Barra de Navidad making it one of the major ship building and repair ports.
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