The history of the coast of Colima and Jalisco, in Mexico, has been determined to a large extent by a series of accidents, among which the most important is the big investment that the Bolivian millionaire Antenor Patiño had to make in Mexico, in order to justify his conjugal address there, which was necessary to obtain his divorce from his first wife. Patiño financed the international airport of Playa de Oro, which still services that part of Colima and Jalisco, and attracted the man who fashioned the coast through his interest in conservation, the husband of his younger daughter, James Goldsmith.