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The quiet giant of Central America, Mexico
By Mark on August 23, 2008
Mexico is the largest of all the Central-American countries, it lye’s partly in the lower part of Northern America and mainly in Central-America, bordering the United States of America and to the south of the country Belize and Guatemala. It is 1,972,545 square kilometers or 761,604 square miles. With extensive coastlines on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But for such a large country the population is not has big as you would expect. By the middle of 2008 the estimate was 106,682,500, which is the 11th highest population in the world. But as I have already said I would expect a larger population. But it is the largest Spanish speaking country.
This is a picture taken from Google Earth of the Central-American country of Mexico.
In prehistory Mexico formed the greater part of ancient Mesoamerica, well a succession of related civilizations were formed sharing many cultural traits, a socio-political organization based on cities with ceremonial plazas of pyramids, platforms and temples and with calendrical systems, long distance trading and the ritual ball game. These civilizations were the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Mixtec, Zapotec, Toltec, western cultures and the Aztec’s. In 1521 the conquest of the Aztec Empire was completed by the Corte’s and New Spain became the first Spanish-American viceroyalty, eventually including all of ancient Mesoamerica, northern Mexico, the Carribean and most of south-western USA. Over the nest 300 years a rigid colonial administration was created including repression and exploitation of the native population and alot of them died due to European diseases. Mexico is full of history and this is when I can rely on wikipedia to help me through, so for more information on Mexico’s history, please go to the link at the bottom of this post. The capital city of Mexico is Mexico city it is one of the largest capital cities in the world. It is the most important economic, industrial and cultural center in the country, and the most populous city with 8,720,916 inhabitants in 2005.
This is a satellite image of one of the largest capital cities in the world, Mexico City.
In the mid 19th century, Mexico lost land to the USA, and between 1910 to 1921, violent revolutions caused chaos. Reforms were introduced and in the 1920’s and by 1929 a revolutionary party had been formed the Institutional Revolutionary Party(PRI) was to be and the party ruled Mexico up until it was defeated in 2001 as a one party state. The then new president, Vincente Fox faced alot of problems with unemployment and rapid urbanization, especially around the capital city and with the native Amerindian groups wanting more rights and with illegal emigration into the USA. The world bank classifies Mexico as a “upper middle income” developing country. And with alot of different types of trading especially with the USA and Canada, the countries economy does rely on those countries.
This is an ariel view of a part of Mexico city taken from panoramio.
This is a picture of Skulls, an ancient Aztec Ruins taken from panoramio.
This is a picture taken of the Catherdral of Mexico, in the capital city taken from panoramio.
I would love to go to Mexico as I have yet again really enjoyed doing this post, It appears to have again so much to offer you within certain parts of the city and some parts that are not quite as attractive to the eye. But being such a big city brings problems as London would know about. There are parts of Mexico city that are gang related, but as along as you stay within the more popular areas you will be alright. There is always something to do in Mexico City, but as you can imagine in the spring and summer time the city can become very hot, as can most of Mexico. But so many British tourists are attracted to Mexico, so there must be something special about the country, city and towns. I would love to hear from anyone who has been to Mexico or the city or any other place within the country to hear yours thoughts. But like most of my posts there are restaurants, bars, nightclubs, shops, hotels, bed and breakfast’s, parks, theaters etc etc etc, so why not give Mexico a go.
This is a panoramio picture of a part of the city of Mexico from the ground with very tall skyscrapers.
This is a panoramio picture of a water feature near within Mexico City.
- Learn about Mexico on wikipedia:
- Learn about Mexico City on wikipedia:
- Learn about the Aztec Empire on wikipedia:
- Find Mexico on Google Earth:
- Find Mexico City on Google Earth:
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
10:02 am on August 24th, 2008
Mexico sounds and looks a wonderful place to visit. Maybe you will one day. Congratulations on the post. You’ve done really well
1:25 pm on August 25th, 2008
I have worked with a lady from Mexico and and at the moment with a man from Mexico, I am not sure wether I would want to visit the country as even though I enjoyed doing the post I just am not sure wether I would want to go. But it does appear to be going quite well at the moment fingers crossed.