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The climate varies from tropical to desert. On all the coast of the Pacific and in the Yucatan the climate is heavy and wet. The cities of the high plateau such as Mexico City, Oaxaca and San Cristobal have a climate moderated with fresh evenings. The rain season from May to September and the dry season ago from October at April. The hot grounds go up to 1 000m of altitude. 1 000 to 2 000m, the climate is moderate.
Above 2 000m, it is rather cold all the same.
In the Northern part of the country, one can qualify the climate of continental: cold in winter, hot in summer.
The summer is the rain season in Mexico.
The downpours are of short duration and generally occur at the end of the day.

Spanish, various Maya dialects.

• Voltage : 110 volts  get an adapter,
• driving :to the right
• National Parade : September 16th.
• Country motto :  Higher and Further (Arriba y adelante)

Mexican Peso; since 1993 Mexico removed 3 zeros from its currency. One still uses the two types of currencies, the old one and the new the peso which is recognized thanks to the symbol N$. 

• Canadian visitors please consult this handy site Travel information and advisory reports
• For all other nationals please consult your Mexican embassy or consulate in your country of origin.

Among the richest sites appear Teotihuacan (and its famous pyramids) and Tula close to Mexico City, Monte Alban and Palenque in the South, like Chicken Itza and Uxmal in Yucatan.

Huipiles (embroidered dresses) and hammocks of Mérida, embroideries, weavings and jewels of Oaxaca, multi-coloured weavings of San Cristobal, silver jewels of Taxco, arcs and arrows of Lacandons with Palenque and everywhere, chess-boards out of onyx, calendars Aztec.

• Food is spiced, pay attention to small strong peppers. The most current dishes are the chilies rellenos (sweet peppers stuffed with meat, fish or cheese); enchiladas (twisted stuffed with cheese or meat) or tacos.
• The Mexicans prepare tasty fruit juice, but the tequila remains without question the national drink.
• Drinking "cul sec" or in cocktails such as the margarita.

Mexican chili con carne
Time of steeping: 8-12 hours
Cooking and set-up time: over 3 hours

Ingredients

• 250 G of Lima beans
• 250 G of steak chopped
• 3 thin sliced onions
• 1 garlic clove
• 1/2 green pepper cleaned and cut in small dice
• 3 large tomatoes peeled and cut in small pieces or 1 box of 796 ml
• 1 spoon of strong pepper or 2 spoon of powder chili
• 1/2 spoon of cumin
• 1 pinch of oregano
• beef fat or oil
• salt

• Preparation

  soak beans; then dry, put in large pan; then boil water, empty water, refresh with cold water, put heat on min. in a pan, put a little oil, and cook the steak with onions in high temperature. At the end of 3 to 5 minutes, incorporate tomatoes, beans cooked and spices To salt; Salt; cover and let it cool for 1/2 hour Serve

Located at the southern end of the North-American continent. Mexico is compared more and more to a country of North America instead of Central America. The plains which border the coasts of the Atlantic and the Pacific, rise gradually to an arid central plate. Mexico has border with: Belize, Guatemala, and the United States.

The country also has two immense maritime borders, one giving on the Pacific Ocean and the other on the Atlantic Ocean (Gulf of Mexico).

Mexico City capital of the country, chief town of the federal district with 2 250m in altitude on the plate of Anahuac, and one of the principal arts centers of Latin America. The city was built in 1521 by Hernan de Cortes on site of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital which he had just destroyed and which one exhumed remains of Zocalo (or central places).

Mexico City remained until 1810 the residence of Spanish defect-kings who equipped it with many churches of which Our Lady of Guadalupe. Iturbide in 1824 made the capital a transitory Mexican empire and the absorbed close villages since (Tlalpan, San Angel and its artisanal market, Coyoacan where was assassinated Trotski) covered with residences of colonial style.

The United States occupied it, later in 1863, the French troops of the emperor Maximilien, whose castle of Chapultepec became museum of national history. Juarez proclaimed the republic in 1867. The industrial revolution brought a surge of peasants to it. Today, more than half of the Mexican working population works in the many factories established within the heart of the city or in its immediate suburbs.

The houses of cobs which extend towards northeast into shantytowns, when they do not rise in the interstices of its urban fabric, contrast with its more recent architectural successes (library of the university; Televista turn; Olympic stage; anthropological museum, which contains more than 60000 pieces, testimonies of the Indian roots in Mexico; place of the Three Cultures where meet the ruins of an Aztec temple, a church of colonial style and a futuristic buildings of modern Mexico).

• The 1st millennium AD sees the appearance of the Mexican civilizations guided by the Maya.
• In XI century, many invaders come from the north and cause serious upheavals.
• In 1519, the Aztec civilization is destroyed following the arrival of the Spanish. The territory will be renamed New Spain.
• The inquisition began in 1570 and after being massacred, those which remained were converted by the Franciscans.
• The declaration of Iguala, in 1821, gives independence to Mexico. It establishes the equality between the Indians and the Spaniards.
• Deep political upheavals occur following the annexation of Texas by the United States what quickly causes a war ending with the loss of Higher California, Arizona and New Mexico.
• A civil war bursts and will be followed a few years afterwards by a long revolution.
• The country is plunged in chaos but has a new constitution as well as laws in order to improve the social condition to support industry and the economy.
• In 1964, the country concentrates on industrialization and oil.
• In 1968, Mexico accommodates the Olympic Games.
• In 1985 Earthquake in Mexico City.
• In 1992, NAFTA is signed.
• In 1994-95 Ernesto Zédillo is elected president.