Cliff Diving

I remember watching ABC's Wide World of Sports when I was young and seeing the cliff diving from Acapulco. I remember the danger, the daring, and the ever-lingering 'agony of defeat'!

La Quebrada, as the cliffs are called, is a dramatic rock formation on Acapulco's western coast, not too far from the Zocalo. A narrow finger of the Pacific reaches in below steep cliffs from which local 'clavadistas' dive several times each day.

Surrounding the cliffs is La Mirador hotel. You can sit at their restaurant and enjoy the show from there, or pay only a few pesos and watch it from a closer public viewing terrace.

We visited La Quebrada twice, once for the late night show, and a second time during the day. For the evening show, the boys made several dives, each increasingly higher and more dramatic. The last dive of the night was from the highest ledge with lighted torches!

Near the entrance to the public terrace is a plaque commemorating 50 years of cliff diving (in Spanish). In the last picture (lower right) you can see the little shrine built in the cliffs near a couple of the diving platforms.

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