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unusual facts about Mexican state



A Place Called Chiapas

Director Nettie Wild takes the viewer to rebel territory in the southwestern Mexican state of Chiapas, where the EZLN live and evade the Mexican Army.

Edward W. Moser

In 1951 they went to live in the Mexican state of Sonora to live with the Seri people and learn the Seri language under the auspices of the Summer Institute of Linguistics.

El Rosarito

El Rosarito, Baja California (Ejido Nuevo Rosarito) is a small town in the Mexican state of Baja California, on Highway 1 between Cataviña to the north and Villa Jesús María to the south.

Jalacingo

Jalacingo is a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz, bordered by Tlapacoyan, Perote and Atzalán and on Federal Highways 180 & 190.

Jalap

Jalap is a cathartic drug, its use largely archaic in the West, consisting of the tuberous roots of Ipomoea purga, a convolvulaceous plant growing on the eastern declivities of the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico at an elevation of 5000 to 8000 ft. above sea level, more especially about the neighbourhood of Chiconquiaco on the eastern slope of the Cofre de Perote in the state of Veracruz.

Jenn Shelton

In 2006, she traveled with Scott Jurek, Christopher McDougall, and several other ultrarunners as the sole female runner to Copper Canyon in the remote southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico to run with the Tarahumara, for McDougall's book Born to Run.

Laguna de Términos

Laguna de Términos (Términos Lagoon) is made up of a series of rich, sediment-laden lagoons and tidal estuaries connected by two channels to the Bay of Campeche in the southern part of Gulf of Mexico, in Carmen Municipality in the southwestern part of the Mexican state of Campeche.

Puerto Nuevo, Baja California

Puerto Nuevo is a community located in Rosarito Beach Municipality in the Mexican state of Baja California; it is famous as the "Lobster Village" of Baja California.

Punta Chueca

Punta Chueca (the name in the Seri language is Socaaix) is a Seri town located on the Gulf of California in the Mexican state of Sonora.

Rocas Alijos

They are part of Comondú municipality of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, and situated about 300 km west of the mainland.

San Julián, Jalisco

San Julián is a city and municipality of about 26,000 people in the Altos region of the Mexican state of Jalisco.

XEQIN-AM

XEQIN-AM (La Voz del Valle – "The Voice of the Valley") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Mixtec, Zapotec and Triqui from San Quintín in the Mexican state of Baja California.

XETUMI-AM

XETUMI-AM (La Voz Mazahua Otomí – "The Mazahua Otomi Voice") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Mazahua and Otomi from El Malacate, municipality of Tuxpan, in the Mexican state of Michoacán.

XEZV-AM

XEZV-AM (La Voz de la Montaña – "The Voice of the Mountain") is an indigenous community radio station that broadcasts in Spanish, Nahuatl, Mixtec and Tlapanec from Tlapa de Comonfort in the Mexican state of Guerrero.

XHCGA-TV

XHCGA-TV 6 was established in 1976 by the Mexican state of Aguascalientes with the support of the Instituto Cultural de Aguascalientes to serve as the public television and radio broadcaster for the state.

XHLEG-TV

TV4 or TV CU4TRO (XHLEG-TV Cuatro) is the state-owned public broadcaster serving the Mexican state of Guanajuato.

XHRCG-TV

XHRCG-TV 7 Siete Saltillo is a pair of broadcast stations serving the Mexican state of Coahuila.


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2003 Atlantic hurricane season

It continued quickly across the body of water, and made landfall in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas as a hurricane on August 17.

The storm drifted southward, reaching peak winds of 65 mph (100 mph) before moving ashore along the Mexican state of Tabasco.

Ahuacatlán

Ahuacatlán, Nayarit, a municipality and its municipal seat in the Mexican state of Nayarit

Ahuacatlán, Puebla, a municipality and its municipal seat in the Mexican state of Puebla

Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala

The Autonomous Municipality of San Juan Copala is an entity made up of Trique Indians who declared their autonomy of the Mexican state in 2006 as a reaction to repression by the Mexican state, especially the Oaxacan government, whose leader Ulises Ruiz was targeted by the APPO movement at the time.

Chínipas

Chínipas de Almada, a town in the south-west of the Mexican state of Chihuahua

Creel

Creel-Terrazas Family, a notable family in the Mexican state of Chihuahua

Cuatro

TV Cuatro (TVCU4TRO), is the brand name of TV4 León (XHLEG-TV), the public broadcaster for the Mexican state of Guanajuato.

Dehesa

Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez, governor of the Mexican state of Veracruz (1892 to 1911).

Dipetalogaster

Dipetalogaster, a genus of Triatominae, the kissing bugs, has only a single species, Dipetalogaster maxima, which is found in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.

El Berrendo, Chihuahua

El Berrendo is a town in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, located in Janos Municipality, directly across the U.S. border from Antelope Wells, New Mexico.

Ernesto Galarza

Born in Jalcocotan, near Tepic in the Mexican state of Nayarit, Galarza immigrated with his mother and two uncles to Sacramento, California.

Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro

The Festival Rock y Ruedas de Avándaro (also known as the Festival de Avándaro) was a historic Mexican rock concert held on 11 September 1971 on the shores of Lake Avándaro in the central Mexican state of Mexico.

Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon

After a series of failed enterprises as a gold prospector he became involved in a conflict in the Mexican state of Sonora.

George Enrique Herbert

Jorge Manuel Torres Teyer and Victor Manuel Adan Carrasco, leaders of the Juarez Cartel in Belize and the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, with whom Herbert conspired, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court in 2003, and were sentenced in May 2004.

Harriet Doerr

Albert Doerr's family owned a copper mine in the Mexican state of Aguascalientes, and in the late 1950s, the Doerrs moved to Mexico where Albert was engaged in restoring the mine.

Huasca

Huasca de Ocampo, town in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, seat of the Municipality of Huasca de Ocampo

Javier Aquino

Born in San Francisco Ixhuatán in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, Javier had shown great technical qualities as a teenager so he began playing in Cruz Azul's lower division squads.

Jeffrey H. Cohen

Cohen's work is centered ethnographically in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Leary v. United States

On December 20, 1965, petitioner left New York by automobile, intending a vacation trip to the Mexican state of Yucatán.

Liberation Army of the South

The Zapatistas were formed in 1910 in the southern Mexican state of Morelos.

Liga Tabasqueña de Béisbol Instruccional

Liga Tabasqueña de Béisbol Instruccional is a AA-level baseball league in the Mexican state of Tabasco.

Mario Domínguez

For the final 3 races of the season, Domínguez secured sponsorship from Mexican state-owned petroleum company Pemex to race for the slightly more competitive Rocketsports team.

Miriam Toews

Filmed in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, the film depicts the same Mennonite community that features in Toews' novel.

North Fair Oaks, California

Because of the large number of residents from one Mexican state the area is also known as Little Michoacán.

Nuestra Señora de la Luz

Nuestra Señora de la Luz de Tancoyol of the Sierra Gorda in the Mexican state of Querétaro were declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 2003.

Pedro Páramo

The novel is set in the town of Comala, considered to be Comala in the Mexican state of Colima.

Peter Kuper

Though permanently based in New York City, Kuper and his wife and daughter resided in the Mexican state of Oaxaca 2006–2008, where he documented an ongoing teachers' strike and other aspects of Mexico in his book Diario de Oaxaca.

Potrerillos

Boca de Potrerillos, a pre-Columbian archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo León, known for its petroglyphs

Punta Prieta

Punta Prieta, Baja California Sur, a small town on the west coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur

Punta Prieta, Baja California, a desert town in the Mexican state of Baja California

Qualpopoca

The province had only recently been added to the Aztec Empire through conquest, and when Hernán Cortés arrived in the region (now the Mexican state of Veracruz) in 1520, one of his first acts was to overthrow Aztec dominon by seizing Aztec tribute collectors in the town of Quiahuiztlan and only returning them after a personal request from the Aztec Emperor.

Quiroga

Quiroga, Michoacán, a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán

Rancho San Francisco

About 2,000 people, mostly from the Mexican state of Sonora, came to Rancho San Francisco to mine the gold.

San Juan Copala

San Juan Copala is a little town in the municipality of Santiago Juxtlahuaca in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, inhabited by Trique Indians.

Santiago Ventura Morales

Santiago Ventura Morales was born in 1968 and grew up in San Miguel Cuevas in the Mexican state of Oaxaca where he completed school through the sixth grade.

Serape

On the other hand, the traditional serape as made in the Mexican state of Coahuila in north-eastern Mexico near the city of Saltillo often consists of a dark base color with bands of yellow, orange, red, blue, green, purple or other bright colors.

Ted Conover

Conover spent a year traveling with Mexicans in order to write Coyotes; he lived in a "feeder" valley in the Mexican state of Querétaro, spent time in Arizona, Idaho, California, and Florida, and crossed the border three times.

William Harding Carter

After a year of scouting in the Arizona and New Mexico territories as well as the Mexican state of Sonora during early 1878, Carter won promotion to first lieutenant on April 14, 1879 and took part in the final stages of the campaign against Victorio from June to October 1880.

Yessica

Yessica Ramírez, who represented the Mexican state of Baja California in the national pageant Nuestra Belleza Mexico

Yessica Salazar, woman from the Mexican state of Jalisco who competed in Nuestra Belleza Mexico and obtained the title of Miss Mexico World

Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

Recent research has been reported that at Lake Cuitzeo in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato evidence supporting a modified version of the Younger Dryas impact hypothesi---involving a much smaller, non-cometary impactor—was found in lake bed cores dating to 12,900 BP.