"En el muelle de San Blas" (English: "On the

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of San Blas") is the fourth radio

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and eighth track off of Maná's fifth studio album, '' Sueños Líquidos'' (1997). In the week of May 23, 1998, the song debuted and reached number eighteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot Latin Tracks. It stayed for a total of six weeks. The song was inspired by a woman in

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, who waited for her fiancé to come back from a fishing trip; it was said he died in a

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, but his body was never found, so Rebeca Méndez Jiménez waited for him for 41 years (1971–2012). Méndez Jiménez died on 16 September 2012. The authorities of Nayarit are considering building a statue of her at the San Blas Port.ZonaFrancaMX
"Muere la mujer que inspiró la canción 'En el muelle de San Blas', del grupo Maná"
(Woman who inspired Maná's song "En el muelle de San Blas" dies), ZonaFranca Mexico, 19 September 2012.

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