Mexico.Fast Fact: Mexico's history dates back more than 8,000 years, when Indian people arrived from the North. Advanced Indian civilizations developed between 250 and 900 A.D. The last of these were the Aztec. They were conquered by the Spanish, who first reached Mexico in 1517. Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821. * AREA: 756,062 square miles. * POPULATION: 108,300,000. Most are mestizos--people of mixed Indian and European [mostly Spanish] ancestry. * POPULATION UNDER 15: 32%. * CAPITAL AND LARGEST CITY: Mexico City Mexico City Spanish Ciudad de México City (pop., 2000: city, 8,605,239; 2003 metro. area est., 18,660,000), capital of Mexico. Located at an elevation of 7,350 ft (2,240 m), it is officially coterminous with the Federal District, which occupies 571 sq mi . * GOVERNMENT: Presidential-legislative democracy. Felipe Calderon Felipe Calderon is the name of:
* ECONOMY: Free-market economy free-market economy n → economía de libre mercado free-market economy n → économie f de marché free-market economy n . Income distribution is highly uneven. Trade with the U.S. and Canada has tripled since 1994, when the three countries signed a free-trade agreement. * PER CAPITA [Latin, By the heads or polls.] A term used in the Descent and Distribution of the estate of one who dies without a will. It means to share and share alike according to the number of individuals. GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. *: $10,000. * LANGUAGE: Spanish, native Indian languages. * LITERACY: 94% [males], 91% [females). * LIFE EXPECTANCY Life Expectancy 1. The age until which a person is expected to live. 2. The remaining number of years an individual is expected to live, based on IRS issued life expectancy tables. : 73 years [males], 28 years [females). * RELIGIONS: About 89% Roman Catholic, 6% Protestant, 5% other. Questions 1. What river runs along most of the border between Mexico and Texas?-- 2. What artificial barrier may be built between Del Rio, Texas Del Rio is the county seat of Val Verde CountyGR6,United States. The population was 33,867 at the 2000 census. Del Rio is known as the American address of legendary Mexican radio stations XERA in the 1930s and XERF transmitter powered each of , and Brownsville, Texas?-- 3. Which city on this map is closest to 20[degrees]N, 100[degrees]W?-- 4. Which U.S. city is located just north of Tijuana?-- 5. What is the approximate distance in miles between Mexico City and Guadalajara?-- 6. Which large body of water borders Mexico to the east?-- 7. Baja California is part of which country?-- 8. What geographical features border the Plateau of Mexico on both the east and west?-- 9. If you wanted to go from Oaxaca to Mexico City, in what direction would you travel?-- 10. Mexico borders what countries to the south?-- * GDP stands for gross domestic product; per capita means per person. This amount is the value of all items produced by the country in a year, divided by the population, and is often used as a measure of a nation's wealth. ANSWERS 1. Rio Grande 2. U.S. security fence 3. Mexico City 4. San Diego 5. 250 miles 6. Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east 7 Mexico 8. Sierra Madre mountains 9. northwest 10. Belize, Guatemala |
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