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For many visitors the most surprising discovery about Mexico is its vivid colors and odd contrasts that abound. Mexico is a unique blending of cultures based on a civilization that built great and beautiful cities when northern Europe was a wilderness.
The richness of life in Mexico is evident in its streets and plazas, in a gathering together, in a sense of community that has nothing to do with conforming. Families are close, and clan ties are binding, even when disrupted by hardship and migration.
Spain held sway over Mexico for almost three centuries, imposing its religion, art, and institutions - and Mexico is still only superficially Spanish. On Columbus Day in Mexico, it is not so much Columbus who is honored as it is the people of Mexico themselves, the unique Mexican race or raza. Mexicans are mostly mestizos, a mixture of Indian and Spanish. The proportion of the mix is impossible to determine and varies from region to region.
The modern Mexican state emerged from a bloody, brutal revolution that raged from 1910 into the 1920s, a struggle comparable in its ferocity to the U.S. Civil War. It was a revolt of the poor, the landless, and the disenfranchised, and when Mexicans speak of "the Revolution," they are referring to this total upheaval of society, not the earlier struggle for independence from Spain.
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Mexico (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México) is a country located in North America, bordered by the United States to the north, and Belize and Guatemala to the southeast. It is the northernmost and westernmost country in Latin America, and also the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world. The country is often referred to by Mexicans as the Mexican Republic (Spanish: República Mexicana) although this is not the officially recognised title. The term State of Mexico (Spanish: Estado de Mexico) does not refer to the country, but only to one state within Mexico, located near the centre of the country adjacent to the Federal District.
The terrain and climate vary from rocky deserts in the north to tropical rain forest in the south. Mexico's major rivers include the Río Bravo del Norte (Rio Grande) and the Usumacinta on its northern and southern borders, respectively, together with the Grijalva, Balsas, Pánuco, and Yaqui in the interior. The Tropic of Cancer effectively divides the country into temperate and tropical zones. Land north of the twenty-fourth parallel experiences cooler temperatures during the winter months. South of the point, temperatures are fairly constant year round and vary solely as a function of elevation.
Mexico is the country where the greatest number of U.S citizens live outside the United States. This may be due to the growing economic and business interdependence of the two countries under NAFTA, and also that Mexico is considered an excellent choice for retirees. A clear example of the latter phenomenon is provided by San Miguel de Allende and many towns along the Baja California peninsula and around Guadalajara, Jalisco. The official figures for foreign-born citizens in Mexico are 493,000 (since 2004), with a majority (86.9%) of these born in the United States.
Mexico is named after its capital city, whose name comes from the Aztec city Mexico-Tenochtitlan that preceded it. The Mexi part of the name is from Mexitli, the war god, whose name was derived from metztli (the moon) and xictli (navel) and thus meant "navel (probably implying 'child') of the moon". So, Mexico is the home of the people of Mexitli (the Mexicas), co meaning "place" and ca meaning "people".
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