La Quebrada

La Quebrada is one of the most famous traveler sights in Acapulco, Mexico. Divers entertain travelers by way of jumping off both of ledges at the cliff, one this is 40 ft high and the pinnacle one which is eighty feet high. The divers ought to calculate the right second to leap to seize an incoming wave and keep away from extreme injury or dying. Occasionally jumpers dive with a torch. Most of the divers come from the own family of Quebrada divers.

Although cliff diving at La Quebrada had taken place for many years, it turned into now not until 1934 that the La Quebrada Cliff Divers was fashioned. In one of the partitions of the cliff there is a route and a restaurant wherein tourists accumulate to look at the human divers and to view pelicans diving for fish. Pelicans are a genus of massive water birds that make up the circle of relatives Pelecanidae. They are characterised via an extended beak and a big throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped-up contents earlier than swallowing.