A hotel with a historical background
Our hotel owes its name to Clipperton Island (sighted by the Englishman John Clipperton and the Frenchman Du Bocage in the 18th century). Which is an uninhabited coral atoll with a surface area of 6 km² and a coastline of 11.1 km located in the Pacific Ocean. It is an extraordinary, disconcerting and magical place.
It is about 1,200 kilometers from the port of Acapulco, and just over 900 from Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo archipelago. Its origin is volcanic and coral. It is located on a mountainous formation that runs along the bottom of the Pacific, perpendicular to the American continent. Under the inner lagoon is the cone of the volcano that gave rise to the island, and you can dive in it to a depth of about 100 meters, just as Commander Cousteau did in 1981.
The fishing wealth, above all, but also the metallic deposits that exist in the surroundings of the island, are closely and necessarily linked to the maritime economic system that naturally, that is to say geographically and ecologically, belongs to Mexico.
At the beginning of the 20th century we had a significant territorial loss, we refer to CLIPPERTON ISLAND, also known as ISLA DE LA PASSION, which was discovered by the Spanish in the 16th century, naming it at that time as ISLA MÉDANOS.
Today France has dominion over the island by virtue of the fact that in 1931 King Victor Manuel III of Italy ruled in his favor in an unnecessary arbitration that José Yves Limantour promoted to resolve the dispute over the island between both nations, being that at that time Mexico maintained full possession; The reasons that led Limantour to propose arbitration were the financial deals he had with the French Minister of Finance and also to guarantee Porfirio Díaz a benevolent exile in France.
CLIPPERTON ISLAND was coveted by the United States, Great Britain and France for being rich in guano. It was precisely the interest of exploiting the guano deposits, the reason given by a group of French businessmen to arouse the greed of Napoleon III, and ask him to occupy CLIPPERTON.
The island's name is attributed to the Englishman John Clipperton and the Frenchman Du Bocage for disclosing its existence in the 18th century. From the sighting by John Clipperton in the year 1705, the charts of the Pacific, especially the English, began to call this island with the name of the pirate.
It is not established who was the discoverer of the island. Some say that Magellan, on January 24, 1521; others say that it was Álvaro Saavedra Cerón, during a trip in November 1526. The island was little more than a few shallows, and that is why the Spanish sailors called it “MÉDANOS”; For them, it was a place that served as a reference point to change course to the west, a kind of semaphore in the sea.
AztecAmerica. (2020). The tragic story of Clipperton Island that France took from Mexico (Photograph). Retrieved from https://aztecaamerica.com/2020/06/07/la-tragica-historia-de-la-isla-clipperton-que-france-le-quito-a-mexico/
Hotel Clipperton
Calle 12 #226 between Calle 9 and 11 Fracc.
Green Coast. Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico.
