Mexico

Mexico is a country in North America, lying between the United States of America to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast.

The Republic of Mexico is vast, comprising nearly two million square miles of coastline, desert, rain forest, mountains, and fertile plains. Its extensive coastlines include the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

There are two major peninsulas in Mexico that are almost countries themselves. In the west is the poetically barren Baja Peninsula, which seals in the biological riches of the Sea of Cortes.

The two main mountain ranges, the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Sierra Madre Oriental, hug the west and east, finally merging into the volcanically active central highlands and the capital, Mexico City the most populous city in the world.

Mexico is highly dependent on exports to the U.S., which represent more than a quarter of the country's GDP (gross domestic product). The result is that the Mexican economy is strongly linked to the U.S. business cycle.

The population of the area around Mexico City is nearly 20 million, which would make it the largest concentration of population in the Western Hemisphere. About 76% of the people live in urban areas. Cities bordering on the United States, such as Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez and cities in the interior such as Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Puebla have undergone sharp rises in population in recent years.

Mexico has been graced with an unusually temperate climate year round. Varies from desert like regions on the northwest part of the country and temperate in the northeaster part, but note that much of the northern Mexican territory gets rather cold during the winter with average day time highs from 8 to 12C, overnight lows average around -5C and snow is sometimes frequent in certain northern places like the Sierra Madre of Chihuahua, Durango, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and northern Tamaulipas but can also occur at higher altitudes in the temperate forests in the central part of Mexico.

Mexican summer is also the rainy season, although the rain rarely lasts more than a few hours, and typically arrives in the late afternoon. Extremes are present only in the North and in Baja, both of which have deserts where the temperature leaps above 100F.

Also, northern Mexico gets very hot during the summer with sudden violent storms in the afternoon, with heavy rain and hail, also an isolated tornado can occur with these storms but rarely, and the temperatures during the day can quickly exceed 39C.

In the Caribbean Sea meets the Yucatan Peninsula, coral reefs come alive, with sea creatures, great and small. The Pacific coast attracts elephant seals and spectacular grey whales, which choose Mexico to breed and give birth, year after year.

In the Plaza de las Tres Culturas celebrate the three major cultures that have shaped Mexico: there are Aztec ruins, the 17th-century colonial church of San Diego and several late 20th-century buildings. Even the dead are alive here, at least once a year; on the Day of the Dead, the living bring gifts to their dearly departed and spend the night in their company, remembering and celebrating how things used to be.

Nor is the desert a barrier to life, it is home to Agaves, the mother of all tequilas. The blue plant has a lot to answer for in Acapulco and Cancun, where everybody come ashore after a day in the surf to flirt in bars and nightclubs.

Mexico is the most populous Spanish speaking country in the world and the second most populous country in Latin America after Portuguese speaking Brazil. They say that Mexico is a country no one ever leaves. Mexico is ranked 7th major destination for foreign visitors, according to WTO. Every year, millions of tourists pass through, and Mexicans jovially warn that a part of them will remain behind forever.

The generosity of the Mexican people is unsurpassed. The people are vivacious lovers of free time and socialising, and work will never have the importance that friends and family do. Knowing a few simple sentences in Spanish will win hearts. Its unique and traditional Mexican food can often be very spicy, it recommend if you are not used to peppers, always ask if your food includes it.

Most visitors are vacationing North Americans who wind up on the brilliant beaches of Cancun, Acapulco, Mazatlan, Akumal and Puerto Vallarta. The beaches, of course, are among the world's best. The great attractions and the friendly people makes Mexico a really wonderful destination to visit.

Xochicalco

The Archaeological Site of Xochicalco is located in the municipalities of Temixco and Miacatlán in the Mexican State of Morelos, 38 kilometres southwest of Cuernavaca and 76 miles from Mexico City. As well as its historical affinities with both the Maya area and the Toluca Valley, nowadays there are still some residents of the Cuentepec […]

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Xel Há Park

The natural site of Xel Há, or Xelhá written in Spanish, is a Maya term which means spring (xel) and water (ha’) referring to the place where the water rises. It is located on the Caribbean coast, in the Mexican State of Quintana Roo, within the Riviera Maya, about 122 kilometres to the south of […]

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Uxmal

The Archaeological site of Uxmal, Óoxmáal in Yucatec Maya, is located 78 kilometres south of Mérida, Yucatán; and 15 kilometres southeast of the town of Muna; at 78 feet above sea level; and travelling by car it is about 1.5 hours from Mérida. Despite of the continuous studying of the archaeological site to consolidate and […]

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Tulum

Tulum, which is written as Tulu'um in Modern Maya and translated as wall or fortification, was the principal port and walled city for Cobá, the large ruined city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization. Located in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, it is on 39 feet cliffs extended all over the east coast of the […]

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Tajín

El Tajín which means City of thunder, hurricane or lighting in Totanac language is located in what nowadays is the municipality of Poza Rica in Veracruz, Mexico. Despite of not being completely excavated, this amazing archaeological site has almost 150 buildings, and just 20 of them have being restored. Consider also, one of many enigmatic […]

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Parícutin Volcano

Parícutin is a cinder cone volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacán, close to a lava-covered village of the same name. It is part of the Michoacán-Guanajuato Volcanic Field which covers much of west central Mexico. Dioniso Pulido, a Tarascan farmer, along with his wife and their son witnessed the initial eruption of ash and […]

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Palenque

Palenque is located in the Mexican State of Chiapas, really near to the Usumacinta River. Although Palenque is smaller than many other Maya sites, its fine architecture, roof comb, sculpture and bas-relief attracts more tourists. Considered as one of the most captivating places of Mexico, the ancient city is full of mysterious; in addition its […]

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Monte Albán

Monte Albán is one of the biggest pre-Columbian archaeological sites in the south of the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. Its location is over some low mountains that are rising above the Valley of Oaxaca, between Tlacolula, Etla, and Zimatlán/Ocotlán valleys. Currently, it is located about 9 kilometres west of now is Oaxaca City. The ceremonial […]

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Copper Canyon

The Copper Canyon, in Spanish Barranca del Cobre, is located all over the Sierra Madre Occidental Range in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico; nowadays, they are in what is north-western Mexico. It is one of the youngest geological formations, and casually, they are also the largest in the North American continent, alike the Grand Canyon […]

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Cacahuamilpa Caves

The Cacahuamilpa Caves National Park or Grutas de Cacahuamilpa as is named in Spanish; comes from the etymologic Cacahuamilpa word of the Náhuatl language, which means peanuts sowing. It is situated inside of the physiographic province of Sierra Madre South, in the north zone of Guerrero State, Mexico. Also, it can be situated 52 kilometres […]

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Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan is the most visited archaeological complex of Mexico. It is located around 30 miles (48 Km) northeast of Mexico City in the municipality of San Juan de Teotihuacan. Within this archaeological complex are some of the largest pyramidal structures of America. The original name of the city was lost in the time as well […]

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Tenochtitlán

Tenochtitlán, the ancient capital of the Aztec Empire, is also known as Temixtitán or Temistitlán. As a powerful city, it had to conquer the surrounding altepetls or Water Mountains with about 500,000 settle man during its peak until 1521, when the Spanish conquers, commanded by Hernán Cortés, got to subjugate it. The city was found […]

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Mexico Downtown

The Historical Center of Mexico, known also as El Centro or Downtown Mexico, currently includes about 1,436 historically important buildings constructed between the 16th and 20th centuries and they are extended over 9 square kilometres and 668 blocks. It is divided in two zones, in order to preserve them, which are the Zone A that […]

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Chapultepec Castle

The Chapultepec Castle, or Castillo de Chapultepec in Spanish, rises on the top of the Chapultepec Hill, where Chapultepec means the grasshopper’s hill in Náhuatl language. It is located in Mexico City, D.F. at a height of 2,325 metres above sea level and used for different purposes from Military Academy, Presidential House, Imperial Residence, and […]

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Calakmul

The Archaeological site of Calakmul is located very deeply in the jungles of Petén Basin, over 1,800,000 acre of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the State of Campeche, Mexico; into the limits of the municipalities of Champotón and Hopelchén; and 30 kilometres from the Guatemalan border. This preponderant Maya site was the major urban center […]

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Chichen Itza

The famous Mayan pyramids of Chichen Itza (chee-chehn eet-sah) in Maya literally means: "Mouth of the well of the Itza", the name Chichen Itza is a Mayan word: CHI (mouth), CHEN (well) and ITZA (of the Itza tribe), it is located a 75 miles east of Merida, the Capital of the State of Yucatan, Mexico. […]

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