Polo The storm became a Category 1 hurricane Wednesday night over the waters of the Mexican Pacific and unloading heavy rains in its progress towards the peninsula of Baja California tour, which a few days ago was devastated by powerful Hurricane Odile.
Polo had sustained winds of 120 mph and was located 290 miles south of Manzanillo, the country's busiest commercial port in the state of Colima, said the National Hurricane Center of the United States.
The storm was moving toward the northwest at 17 kilometers per hour (kph), causing high waves along the coasts of the states of Guerrero, Oaxaca, Jalisco and Michoacan.
Polo is expected to follow a path parallel to the west coast, which similarly took Odile, who as a Category 3 hurricane struck Sunday in Baja California Sur, where the resorts of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo is located.
Odile caused extensive damage to hotels, homes and businesses of the peninsula and on Wednesday was downgraded to a tropical depression after crossing the Gulf of California and landfall again on the shores of the border state of Sonora.
The Mexican government on Tuesday announced tax incentives to support businesses affected in Baja California Sur and evacuated nearly 5,000 tourists stranded using aircraft of the Armed Forces, the Federal Police and commercial airlines.
Authorities had said that the area had 30,000 vacationers, between 26,000 and 4,000 local foreigners.
The presidency said in a statement that it has recovered 23% of the electricity, then a cut that affected almost the entire state.
There were also problems of water supply and looting shops, and locals complained of lack of food and medicine.
Pacific Airport Group (GAP), which operates the international airport in San Jose del Cabo, said in a statement that the rains caused damage inside the airport building and commercial service expected to be regularized in a ten-days.
The hurricane season, which ends in October, has mainly affected the Pacific coast while almost no hurricanes have formed in the Caribbean coast, where the famous tourist resort of Cancun is located.
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