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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Mexico
- Time Zone: GMT/UTC -7 (The North West state of Sonora is on -7 GMT all year round), GMT/UTC -7 (Baja California Sur and several other states in the northwest are on Mountain Time), GMT/UTC -8 (Baja California Norte is on Pacific Standard Time), GMT/UTC -6 (Most of Mexico is on Central Standard Time in Winter)
- Electricity: 120V, 60 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
- Weights & measures: Metric
- International Calls: Call home at cheap rates by using a direct dial service
Must See - Properties on UNESCO World Heritage List
- Sian Ka'an (Quintana Roo)
- Pre-Hispanic City and National Park of Palenque(Chiapas)
- Historic Centre of Mexico City and Xochimilco (District Federal)
- Pre-Hispanic City of Teotihuacan (Mexico)
- Historic Centre of Oaxaca and Archaeological Site of Monte Albán (Oaxaca)
- Historic Centre of Puebla (Puebla)
- Historic Town of Guanajuato and Adjacent Mines (Guanajuato)
- Pre-Hispanic City of Chichen-Itza (Yucatan)
- Historic Centre of Morelia (Michoacan)
- El Tajin, Pre-Hispanic City (Veracruz)
- Whale Sanctuary of El Vizcaino ((Baja California Sur)
- Historic Centre of Zacatecas (Zacatecas)
- Rock Paintings of the Sierra de San Francisco (Baja California Sur)
- Earliest 16th-Century Monasteries on the Slopes of Popocatepetl (Morelos and Puebla)
- Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal (Yucatan)
- Historic Monuments Zone of Querétaro (Querétaro)
- Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara (Jalisco)
- Archeological Zone of Paquimé, Casas Grandes (Chihuahua)
- Historic Monuments Zone of Tlacotalpan (Veracruz)
- Historic Fortified Town of Campeche (Campeche)
- Archaeological Monuments Zone of Xochicalco (Morelos)
- Ancient Maya City of Calakmul, Campeche (Campeche)
- Franciscan Missions in the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro (Querétaro)
- Luis Barragán House and Studio (Mexico)
Mexico Facts
Location
Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize and the US and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and the US
Capital
Mexico (Distrito Federal)
Population
108,700,891 (July 2007 est.)
Mexico Regions
Mexico consists of 31 states (estados, singular - estado) and 1 federal district* (distrito federal)
Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, Distrito Federal*, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatan, Zacatecas
Climate
varies from tropical to desert
Ethnic groups
mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1%
Religions
nominally Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 6%, other 5%
Languages
Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional indigenous languages
Government type
federal republic
Background
The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. The elections held in 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition candidate - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 by another PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON.
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