Founded on May 24, 1967, it is the youngest Municipality of the State. In Armería you can get regional sweets, such as coconut and pineapple pastes, cocadas with honey, nuts or raisins; guava rolls, tamarind, “little drunks”, dehydrated bananas, among other sweets and delicacies. In the urban landscape, you can admire a horizone of palm trees with a background of blue sea waters and the Coliman sun shinning.

On the nearby beaches of Cuyutlán in Armería, you will find El Tortugario Ecological Center, where you can experience the magic of the marine life through fantastic interactive experiences that help to preserve endangered species. In El Tortugario, visitors will be able to release, from their own hands, baby turtles ready to return to the sea (depending on the climatological conditions).

This camp also possesses a “cocodrilario”, and an “iguanario”(crocodile and iguana Ecological Centers), a natural sidewalk to see the birds and a wharf that allows you to embark a boat and admire El Paraíso lagoon.

This singular museum was created because the economic activity of greatest importance in this locality is the extraction of salt. It is set up in one of the “salineras” or salt mine storages. Here, the visitor will be able to observe a reproduction of the many famous Cuyutlán salt mines. The museum also provides a sketch with a description of the culture of the workers of the salt, and their sphere and life conditions.

The mangrove plantations of the Paraíso estuary are a "must-see" for those visiting Cuyutlán. It is an impressive ecosystem of wild flora and fauna, providing the ideal habitat for white herons and pink flamingoes on small strangely-shaped barren islands. To see these birds take off in flocks in free and rhythmic flight is truly a magnificent sight.

Narrow beach located to the north of the Armería river mouth. This beach counts with lifeguard and sunshade renting services. In May and June, this beach is visited by a great variety of tourists who like to practice aquatic sports, such as surfing, windsurfing and the banana rides.

One of the typical fruits of Colima is Lemon, citric brought from Europe, but it is registered botanically as Mexican Lemon. With few more then 19,000 hectares, Colima State occupies the first place in its production. It has kept this relevance since the end of the XIXth century when the Comala Municipality and Tecomán already exported it monthly to San Francisco, California. In the fifties the citricultors of Tecomán Valley signed a contract with Golden Citrus Juices Inc of Florida, in order that the lemon juice and essential oil were sold to them, multiplying for it the packing and industrialization plants. They make good use of this fruit, from leaf oil is obtained, from the skin jam is made and pectins are obtained and certainly the juice, of which diverse uses are given.

It is located opposite to opened sea, its blue waters are deep, propitious for the surfing practice; it is an extensive beach where the Armería river mouth can be seen.

This beach is the typical and traditional place for those who visit Tecomán region, and want to delight his palate since the seafood that here is prepared is of excellent quality and freshness, as the ceviche style Colima or the traditional seafood soupwith fish, shrimps, crab and octopus seasoned with spices.

Shrimps are the speciality and they are offered to the visitor with garlic, butter, with breaded or hot spicy . Along the beach there can be found all kinds of marine crafts, such as earrings and shell and/or conch necklaces, and marine animals carved in wood. For being an opened sea beach, the swell is strong, for what it is advisable to observe the flags that are placed along the beaches for the visitor's safety.

It is located near Tecomán, opposite to opened sea, deep waters and moderate swell, its light gray color sand spreads on a wide band of moderate slope. This beach's swell is ideal for surfing because its waters make tube form waves.

It is a proper place for the rest and to enjoy the delights that the sea has to offer. Beaches in this zone are of thin dark gray color sand and moderate slop. In the Tecuanillo's river mouth, the swamps vegetation abound and diverse marine birds can be observed.

This museum opened its doors in 1996, projected to spread among the Manzanillo port youth and its visitors the cultural past and to contribute to the diffusion of the Western Cultures, which left a number of important vestiges of their presence. The museum is a building of modern lines, constructed thinking fundamentally on the high sesimicity conditions of the area and on the nearness to the coast. It lets you learn, through figurines and jars, about the Comala, Capacha, Los Ortices, Periquillos, Colima and Armería cultures.

The museum distribution consists of 5 exhibition rooms, where it is shown more than 1,800 pieces of a collection of 18,000. Many of the pieces were donated to the University of Colima by collectors of Manzanillo and of the region. There, the reproduction of two tombs that correspond to the Comala phase, from 300 to 500 yeas A.D., stand out. The last exhibition room is utilized for temporary exhibitions.

This shop - museum is ideal for those who are looking for handcrafted typical works of the coast. Here, you can find different objects mainly made of shells, conch and corals. Besides admiring the skills and the ingenuity of the Coliman craftsman, you can buy the objects you are interested in.

These two bays are devided by the Santiago Peninsula. Due to their physical similarities, they are known as twins. In the peninsula, one of the most attractive tourist complexes of the country is located. Manzanillo bay consists of the following beaches: Ventanas, Las Coloradas, El Viejo, San Pedrito, Las Brisas, Playa Azul, Salahua, Las Hadas and La Escondida, the fiscal wharf, and the interior port. The Santiago bay includes these beaches: La Audiencia, Santiago, Olas Altas, Miramar and La Boquita.

One of the most important attractions for the tourism that comes to Manzanillo is fishing. It enjoys international reputation because of the simplicity it is practiced, here in Manzanillo. Due to the fact that in these waters, has been captured the biggest number of sailfish worldwide, the port has received the title of The World Capital of the Sailfish.

Deep-sea fishing is a modality that needs crafts of regular size that are propitious to navegate distances of 16 km of the coast, in opened sea, where the water depth allows you to catch big specimen like, sailfish and black, striped and blue marlin.

Manzanillo's adventage over other ports is that here, to catch an specimen, you need to navegate for only 10 ta 15 minutes from the point of departure; but in other tourist destinations you have to navegate from 2 to 3 hours to catch one.

Another sport that is practiced in Manzanillo and that has given it reputation worldwide is golf, thanks to its wonderful fields that have turned into headquarters of international tournaments where the most world famous golfers play.

The most spectacular field is that of Isla Navidad, thanks to its design meticulously planned by architect Robert Von Hagge, who has designed 184 other besides this one and participated in the planning of the design of other 200 in the world. The 27 golf fields have turned it into a challenge for many golfers. Besides, there are areas destined for diverse services like La Casa Club and the International School of Golf.

Las Hadas golf field has 18 holes, but it is not less beautiful, decorated with a multitud of palms trees that dance with the wind and observe silently every sportsmen's shot.

In Club Santiago, you can find the third golf field in Manzanillo, with 9 holes and a special characteristic; It is located opposite to the sea, which gives it a different and hot touch.

Definitively this sport has become one of the biggest attractions of the port.