WELCOME TO MEXICO

HOW DID MEXICO BECOME A COUNTRY?

• On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a parish priest from the town of Dolores, issued a call to rebellion. In response, rebel leader Vicente Guerrero and defected royalist general Agustín de Itúrbide collaborated to gain Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821.

WHERE IS MEXICO LOCATED?

• 23.6345° N, 102.5528° W
• Mexico is in both the northern and western hemispheres. Disected by the Tropic of Cancer, the country is positioned in North America, and bordered by Belize, Guatemala, the United States, and the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.

WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT DOES MEXICO HAVE?

• Republic Presidential system Constitutional republic Federal republic

WHAT ARE THE MAIN RELIGIONS BRING PRACTICED IN MEXICO?

• Roman Catholic Christianity. Roman Catholic is the most popular religion in Mexico with 82.7% of the population associated with it. ... Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Mainline Protestant Christianity. ... The Non-Believers.

WHAT ARE SOME FAMOUS MEXICANS?

• Africa Zavala
• Paloma Jiménez
• Demián Bichir
• Columba Bush
• Gloria Trevi
• Carlos Vela
• Frankie J

WHAT LANGUAGES DO THEY SPEAK?

• Spanish

WHAT TYPE OF CURRENCY DOES MEXICO HAVE?

• Peso
• 1 Mexican Peso equals 0.052 US Dollar

WHAT TYPE OF GEOGRAPHY DOES MEXICO HAVE?

• Almost all of Mexico is on the North American Plate, with small parts of the Baja California Peninsula in the northwest on the Pacific and Cocos Plates. Some geographers include the portion east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec including the Yucatán Peninsula within North America.

WHAT KIND OF FOOD DO THEY EAT?

• Enchiladas date back to Mayan times when people in the Valley of Mexico would eat corn tortillas wrapped around small fish. These days both corn and flour tortillas are used and are filled with meat, cheese, seafood, beans, vegetables or all of the above.

WHAT TYPE OF CULTURAL DAYS DO THEY HAVE IN MEXICO?

• Cinco de Mayo
• Dia De Los Muertos
• Day of the Dead
• What they celebrate on day of the dead is their dead ancestors.

HOW MANY STATES ARE THERE IN MEXICO AND WHAT IS THE CAPITAL?

• Mexico is divided into 32 federal entities, of which 31 are states and one is a federal district.
• Mexico City