Town in Tamaulipas, Mexico
Photo: Eneas De Troya from Mexico City, México, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
La Pesca is a town in Tamaulipas, Mexico, on the Gulf coast about halfway between Matamoros and Tampico, just north of the mouth of the Rio Bravo. As the name might suggest, it's well known for its sport fishing, both in the Gulf and on the Rio Bravo, but there's also a long sandy beach about 2 km east of town, stretching north from the lighthouse on Punta Piedra. Each year around the Easter week, as many as 50,000 people descend on the town for Spring Break, flooding the hotels and camping on the beach. Outside of Easter week, and the Christmas season, the town and beach can be very uncrowded and sedate, especially off of the weekends.
Mexican food. Try camarones empanizados and huachinango enpanizado.
A good midrange hotel (M$400-500 per night). Family friendly, with a well-kept pool, a boat dock, air conditioning in each room, and grills and cooking equipment you can use to cook your catch at the end of day. They also sell fish and other seafood for the less lucky fishermen. Look for the peach colored buildings on your right as you arrive in La Pesca.
This is a hotel known for its hospitality, and is actually the last hotel on your drive towards the beach, which makes it the closest. It is a great place to stay for a different experience from the rest of the hotels, because they offer clean and pretty tropical cabins painted in bright colours, with kitchenette, TV, BBQ pit, pool, fishing pier, and a convenience store on the property, which is great for all the people that forget to bring stuff with them. In the store they offer everything from soft drinks, meat, t-shirts, all sorts of beach balls, and practically anything you should need. They also have a nice camping area, for all the people who want to stay in a tent because they either don't want to pay that much or just for the fun of it. Another advantage is that they have cabins from 2 to 4 persons, 5-6, 7-8 or 9-10, which is great if you're traveling with a big family. The price ranges are also acceptable (~M$700-1,300 per night) which if you compare to having to get 3 or 4 hotel rooms to fit a 10 person family, is actually cheap. While visiting La Pesca, look for the bright cabins on your right hand side, heading towards the beach.
Nice and private place. La Quinta Huachinango has 3 vacation apartments for rent, two 2-bedroom and one 1-bedroom, with private bathrooms, sky-tv, air-conditioning, and personal barbeque pits. Up to 30 people. Outside there's a nice swimming pool surrounded by stone walkways, a pier, 50 m of waterfront, and 3 palapa-covered picnic areas with barbeque grills.
Clean, family-friendly hotel on the banks of the Rio Soto La Marina. Rooms are clean and have cold air conditioning. Off-street parking is available. Hotel amenities include an outdoor swimming pool and a dock on the river.
La Pesca is 50 km east of Soto La Marina on Highway 70. There's no large airport, so it has to be reached either by car or bus.
Read in the guideThe town is small enough to walk anywhere you might need to go, but the beach is about 2 km east of town.
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