Plazuela Machado

Plazuela Machado occupies a site that was once a lagoon, filled in to build the plaza. It opened in 1837 at the initiative of the merchant Juan Nepomuceno Machado and was originally called "El Paseo de los Naranjos", for its orange trees and its 36 stone benches.

The central kiosk that still stands today was added in 1881. It stands next to the Ángela Peralta Theater and, since the late twentieth century, has been surrounded by restaurants and cafés; it is a landmark of Mazatlán’s Centro Histórico.

Through the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth, it was the setting for serenades, literary gatherings and social events, and it became the first home of the Mazatlán Carnival. In 1915 it was briefly renamed Plaza Madero, though mazatlecos kept calling it Machado.