México Biography

Panama Republic
Ministry of Education
IPT Jacoba Urriola Solis

Name:

Jennifer Ortega,

Level:

8º B

Subject:

Geography

Teacher:

Sheryl Jaen

Theme:

“Mexico”

Deliver Date:

12/7/2010

Mexico

Mexico (náhuatl: Mēxihco )?, official name is Mexico United Stated.

Land area: 742,485 sq mi (1,923,039 sq km);
Total area: 761,602 sq mi (1,972,550 sq km)Population (2010 est.): 112,468,855 (growth rate: 1.1%);
Birth rate: 19.4/1000;
Infant mortality rate: 17.8/1000;
Life expectancy: 76.2;
Density per sq km: 57

Capital and largest city (2003 est.):
Mexico City, 19,013,000 (metro. area), 8,591,309 (city proper)

Other large cities:
Ecatepec, 1,731,900 (part of Mexico City metro. area);
Guadalajara, 1, 665,800;
Puebla, 1,345,500;
Nezahualcóyotl, 1, 250,700 (part of Mexico City metro. area);
Monterrey, 1, 135,000.

Monetary unit: Mexican peso



At least three great civilizations:

* the Mayas
* the Olmecs,
* And the Toltecs Preceded the wealthy Aztec empire, Conquered in 1519–1521 by the Spanish under Hernando Cortés.

Spain ruled Mexico as part of the viceroyalty of New Spain for the next 300years until Sept. 16, 1810, when the Mexicans first revolted. They won independence in 1821.

From 1821 to 1877, there were two emperors, several dictators, and enough presidents and provisional executives to make a new government on the average of every nine months. Mexico lost Texas (1836), and after defeat in the war with the U.S. (1846–1848), it lost the area that is now California, Nevada,and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1855, the Indian patriot Benito Juárez began a series of reforms, including the disestablishment of the Catholic Church, which owned vast property. The subsequent civil war was interrupted by the French invasion of Mexico (1861) and the crowning of Maximilian of Austria as emperor(1864). He was overthrown and executed by forces under Juárez, who again became president in 1867.

Mexico is bordered by the United States to the north and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast. Mexico is about one-fifth the size of the United States. Baja California in the west is an 800-mile (1,287-km) peninsula that forms the Gulf of California. In the east are the Gulf of Mexico and theBay of Campeche, which is formed by Mexico's other peninsula, the Yucatán. The center of Mexico is a great, high plateau, open to the north, with mountain chains on the east and west and with ocean-front lowlands beyond.

Grijalva River, Chiapas.

The Mexico Rivers is groups in three slopes: The pacific slope, the gulf slope and interior slope. The longest of this Mexican river is the BRAVO ofgulf slope.
This has 3.034 of length serve as United Stated Limit. Others Importants Rivers are: Usumacinta that is the wealthiest of Mexico and Grijalva River it’s second of the country.

Mexico Tourism |
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Cancún
Quintana Roo | Puebla
Puebla | Chichen Itzá
Yucatán | Cabo San Lucas
Baja California Sur | Teotihuacán
Estado de México | | | |
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Creel
Chihuahua | San Miguel de Allende
Guanajuato | Acapulco
Guerrero | Monte Albán
Oaxaca | Ciudad de México
Distrito Federal | | | |
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Tijuana
Baja California | San Cristobal de las Casas
Chiapas | Puerto Vallarta
Jalisco | El Tajín
Veracruz | Morelia
Michoacán | | | |

The tourism in Mexico is an important economic activity from thecountry and is a greater in the world occupied the eighth place a world-wide level in terms of arrival international tourist with 21, 4 million of visitant in 2006 and is the first place of destiny from foreign tourist.

In 2005 the tourism contributed with 5.7% of the national income and represent 14.2% of the employ direct or indirect of the Mexican economic.

The principal touristic...