
SAN PANCHO, MEXICO HISTORY
In the early stages of San Pancho’s development, the story goes that the town evolved out of a hacienda, and later communal ejidal territory, into a humble fishing village still named after the patron saint, San Francisco. For decades the handful of families that made up the town fished for their subsistence, and raised livestock and local fruit crops. The development of San Pancho would have continued slowly and unremarkably – in step with all the other pueblos along the Bahia de Banderas coast – if the President of Mexico had not taken a special interest in the town during his term that lasted from 1970 to 1976.