Informations on Mexico
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Mexico is a very attractive tourist destination : Pyramids, mountains, volcanoes, waterfalls, canyons, rivers, lakes, lagoons, jungles, cacti, fine old colonial cities and beaches.
Mexico has a population of 113 million inhabitants and a 1.967,183-km2 territory, 31 states and the city of Mexico. The national language is Spanish and 52 native languages. Temperature is 23-c all year around.
The great civilizations : The olmecas – Tabasco and Veracruz; Zapotecos – Oaxaca; Mixtecos – Oaxaca; Toltecas, Teotihuacanos – State of Mexico; Mayas – Peninsula of Yucatán, Chiapas, Quintana Roo; Aztecs – Mexico City,
The conquest of the Azteca empire was done in 1521 with the arrival of Cortez. Three centuries of Spanish colonization and evangelization was carried out by Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits and Augustinian.
Independence took place in 1821 for the father Miguel Hidalgo, Vicente Guerrero, José María Morelos, Ignacio of Allende, Agustín of Iturbide, John Aldama, Josefa Ortiz of Domínguez, among others.
The foundation of the Republic and the ensuing events took place between 1821 and 1890. Dictatorships, stranger interventions, European empires, lost of territories, constitutions among other events.
The Mexican revolution. Pancho Villa division of the north, Emiliano Zapata and his struggle for recovering lands in hands of hacendados. The constitution of 1917. The oil expropriation made by the President Lazaro Cardenas in 1938. And others events occurred in modern times.
