2. GEOGRAPHY
• Mexico is located between latitudes 32 ° and 14 ° North and 86 ° and 118 ° west, most of
the country's area is located in the North American Plate, with some parts of Chiapas in
the Caribbean plate and the Peninsula Baja California in the Cocos plate and the Pacific
plate, geophysically, some geographers include the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Latin
Central. However, geopolitically, Mexico is considered within North America, along with
Canada and the United States.
3. BIODIVERSITY
• Mexico is one of 12 megadiverse countries in the world. With over 200,000 different
species, Mexico is home of 10-12 percent of biodiversity mundial.19 Mexico qualifies first
in biodiversity in reptiles with 733 known species, second in mammals with 448 species,
fourth in amphibians with 290 species, and fourth in flora, with 26,000 different
especies.Mexico is also considered the second country in the world in ecosystems and
fourth in total especies.
• Approximately 2,500 species are protected by legislation mexicanas. The Mexican
government created the System National Biodiversity Information about who is
responsible for studying and promoting substantial use of ecosystems.
4. ECONOMY
• According to World Bank data, in 2005 Mexico had the gross national income per capita
highest in Latin America,
• Mexican economy in terms of gross domestic product, was in 2006 the world's fourteenth
largest in nominal and twelfth in purchasing power parity. Conforms well as the second
largest nominal GDP of Latin America, second only to Brazil.
• However, the distribution of the country's wealth is inequitable and the division between
rich and poor is very large. Yet the country had an incredible recovery from the last
financial crisis in 1994-1995. Mexico is the tenth largest exporter in the world and was
recently appointed "emerging economy", as they are called to economies that have been
growing steadily in recent years. The country's economy depends heavily on its trade with
the United States, which consumes more than 85 percent of Mexican exports and employ
almost 10 percent of its population
5. MUSIC
• Internationally renowned mariachi is the set associated with the great figures of the
"Mexican song" ranchera, which had its flowering period between the decades of 1940-
1970. Coming from western Mexico, specifically the state of Jalisco, the Mariachi was
originally a folkloric and indigenous, and their clothing had nothing to do with the charro
• The mariachi in its commercial form, is modified to result in arrangements (mariachi light)
and perform songs like a ballad to a sound or a song ranchera. Its performers are
products of the major TV companies.
6. LITERATURE
• The Mexican letters both boast great writers of that nationality as other foreigners who, for
different reasons, have written and published their works in Mexico, perhaps because of
the peculiar generosity of this country with migrants. Thus, the Mexican Amado Nervo,
Alfonso Reyes, José Juan Tablada, Martin Luis Guzman, Xavier Villaurrutia, Salvador
Novo, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz, José Revueltas, Rosario Castellanos, Juan José Arreola,
Jaime Sabines, Carlos Monsivais, Carlos Fuentes, José Agustín, José Emilio Pacheco
and Carlos Montemayor have been some of the best exponents of the twentieth century
7. SPORTS
• It is often referred to as the national sport charrería Mexicans. This sport is derived from
the tasks of the foremen on plantations ganaderas.Su origin dates from the colonial era,
and is attributed to the creation Maximilian of Hapsburg charro suit in its final form.
• While the Ministry of Education includes teaching physical education in schools in their
care, as they do also the state agencies responsible for investigating, in the country
organized sport is not a common activity among the people. The most widespread is
perhaps football, but in the north of the country have a greater presence basketball,
baseball and softball,
8. SOCCER
• The most popular sport and most widespread in the country's football or, as it is written
and pronounced in-country, football. The Mexican league is comprised of four divisions,
these are the MX League, the Liga de Ascenso, the Second Division and the Third
Division.
• The greatest football team has participated in 14 World Cups, has 9 titles continental Gold
Cup CONCACAF being more cups whole tournament, as well as having an international
title in the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1999
• The U23 national team won the gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games, while the
football team was crowned U-17 World Championship held in Peru in 2005, and also at
the World Championships held in Mexico in 2011.
9. EDUCATION
• Mexico's Constitution states in article third, that the state provide preschool, primary,
secondary and high school in a secular, free and compulsory, and for this purpose it was
created the Ministry of Education on October 3, 1921.
• Mexico has one of the highest rates in relation to teachers regarding students in the world
with 26 students per teacher nationwide. Students of the country are located in the place
48 of the 65 most developed countries, and third in Latin America, after Chile and
Uruguay, according to PISA 2009.
