HERE ARE SOME CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT MEXICO:
Its official name isn't Mexico, but Mexican United States.
The flag, although it was created in 1821, takes 147 years to become official 1968.
It's the home of the largest pyramid. Did you think the pyramids of Egypt were unbeatable? The Great Pyramid of Cholula measures 450 metres by 450 metres, rising 55 metres above the plain where construction began around 300 BC.
Spanish-speaking country with the most inhabitants. Logic would say that Spain is where Spanish is spoken the most. But with a population of more than 120 million, Mexico surpasses any other country.
There are 68 recognized languages. One of the most unknown curiosities of Mexico is that there are 68 native languages and 364 linguistic variants recognized in the country besides Spanish. Surprisingly, Mexico has no official language.
Largest beer exporter in the world. The Crown brand is the best known in other countries.
Coca Cola is the favorite soft drink. Mexico is the country with the highest consumption of Coca Cola in the entire planet. Devotion goes so far that in the town of San Juan Chamula, Coca Cola is literally considered a holy drink.
Chocolate was a Mexican discovery. Olmec, Aztec, Toltec and Mayan civilizations must be thanked!
They had very macabre rituals. One of the most macabre Aztec rituals was to sacrifice between 10,000 and 50,000 people every year. They had the belief that the world would end if there was no human blood running.
The largest university in the world is Mexican. UNAM has over 360,000 enrolled students. With these numbers, it's the biggest in the world. It was founded in 1551, also earning the record for being the oldest university in North America.
In its form, Mexico is a country like no other in the world: with its two peninsulas and its two gulfs it swings on both sides of the Tropic of Cancer. In the North it deploys deserts and drought, in the South it engulfs jungles and humidity.
Mexico is like an enormous wrinkled paper - full of ranges, saws, plains, volcanoes and plains, where all climates exist and one tenth of the plants and animals on the planet are concentrated.
What is the significance of Cinco de Mayo? Cinco de Mayo commemorates Mexico’s May 5, 1862 victory over France in the Battle of Puebla. On that day Mexican President Benito Juárez left General Ignacio Seguín Zaragoza, a Texas native, to defend the city of Puebla from French invasion. The feud began in 1861 when Juárez suspended the nation’s foreign debt payments, and Napoleon III responded by sending 5,000 elite French troops to invade Mexico in an attempt to make it part of a French colony. Of those fighting on the Mexican side at the battle of Puebla, 500 were Tejanos. The victory was unexpected being that European forces were far more powerful at the time. For this reason, the victory for Mexico inspired national pride and became an important symbol of national patriotism. It also gave the French and the rest of the world an idea of the Mexican national character, one that had been misunderstood and underestimated by the powers of Europe. After the Mexican victory, Juárez retained control of the central valleys of Mexico for over a year which had long-term damaging results to the dream of the French empire.
We are lucky to live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
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Louise and Geordie Nayarit Living - Real Estate and Long-Term Rental www.NayaritLiving.com
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