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 The name of designer, Señor, José Manuel Martinez Peña, creator-designer of the Heraldic Coat-of-Arms of Puerto Vallarta, was on the front-page issue of El Guardian newspaper in 1968. Señor Don Pedro Cortes, director of the newspaper, gave Martinez Peña, recognition for the design.
Señor J. Manuel Martinez Peña, a local artist, who graduated from Sam Carlos de México, D.F.’s Academy, was born in Cuquío, Jalisco. He has lived in Puerto Vallarta all his life.
The Honorable Congress of the State of Jalisco awarded Señor Martinez Peña merit recognition for designing Puerto Vallarta Heraldic Coat-of-Arms.
The representative logo of Vallarta created by Martinez Peña and the name of its designer will prevail for posterity.
The following transcription from artist Manuel Martinez Peña describes in detail Heraldic Coat-of-Arms that is illustrated in the following graphic:
 The Heraldic Coat-of-Arms is divided in four symmetric squares. Each square has a different graphic representation applied to Puerto Vallarta’s history and its economic as well as sociologic development. On the top left square we see the origins of Puerto Vallarta or better known by traditions. They are represented by the first and only house on the beach, which belonged to the first settler and founder of Vallarta, Don Guadalupe Sanchez-. The bottom left square represents the legal transition that happened fifty years ago, when the small municipality of Las Peñas became a new town named Puerto Vallarta, after famous Jurist from Jalisco, Attorney Ignacio Luis Vallarta. The photograph represents the general constitution of the Republic of Mexico, and the articles related to the Protection Law, derived from law resolutions, after eminent jurist from Jalisco, Attorney Ignacio Luis Vallarta.
The top right square represents the economic life of the Port; which is tourism, represented by a sailfish, the most abundant symbol of the Bay. The bottom right square is a great representative of the friendship and trustworthy of people of Vallarta toward all visitors.
The Heraldic Coat-of-Arms is framed in a Marine Anchor pending from a festooned cable, which in poetic language means we are children of the Ocean.
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