X-Nico

unusual facts about northern Mexico



Campostoma ornatum

The Mexican stoneroller (Campostoma ornatum) is a small fish of the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Estevanico

He was one of four survivors among the 600 men who started, and traveled for eight years with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado across northern New Spain (present-day U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico), before they reached Spanish forces in Mexico City in 1536.


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Adenophyllum porophylloides

It is native to the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Amapa

Amapa, Amapa morada: common name for the tree Tabebuia impetiginosa, which ranges from northern Mexico to Argentina.

B. salicifolia

Baccharis salicifolia, a flowering shrub species native to the desert southwest of the United States and northern Mexico

Bill Narum

Bill Narum (January 11, 1947-November 18, 2009) was an artist, illustrator, and Texas counter-culture icon known for his work in popular entertainment, and for being one of the few non-natives to have lived with the Tarahumara tribe of northern Mexico in Copper Canyon.

Boy's Town, Nuevo Laredo

The origins of the Boy's Town concept along the U.S.-Mexico border can be traced in part to the relationship that developed between the United States Army and various ad hoc entrepreneurs in northern Mexico during the army's 1916–17 Punitive Expedition; specifically when General John J. Pershing's forces were pursuing General Pancho Villa in Chihuahua.

C. digitata

Cucurbita digitata, the fingerleaf gourd and bitter squash, a flowering plant species native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico

Comanche history

They generally annihilated or absorbed the Coahuiltecan, Chisos, Jano, and Manso peoples they found there and began to raid northern Mexico.

Crotaphytidae

The Crotaphytidae, or collared lizards, are a family of desert-dwelling reptiles native to the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli

Dominic spent several months on assignment co-hosting the travel TV series Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled, airing internationally beginning November 2009 on the National Geographic Adventure Channel, hunting down new travel experiences in Colombia, Spain, and northern Mexico.

Dominick Moreno

He spent breaks abroad teaching English in northern Mexico in the village of Palmitas.

Drug Wars: The Camarena Story

Fact-based story of undercover DEA agent Enrique Camarena (Bauer) who, while stationed in Guadalajara, uncovered a massive marijuana operation in Northern Mexico that led to his death and a remarkable investigation of corruption within the Mexican government.

E. glaucus

Elymus glaucus, the blue wild rye, a wild rye species native to North America from Alaska to New York to northern Mexico

Francisco María Píccolo

Arrived at the Viceroyalty of New Spain in the year 1684 and was assigned to missions in northern Mexico.

Gossypium thurberi

Desert cotton (Gossypium thurberi), also known as Arizona wild cotton and Thurber's cotton, is a wild species of cotton native to the Sonoran desert area of northern Mexico and parts of the state of Arizona in the United States.

J. californica

Justicia californica, the chuparosa, hummingbird bush or beloperone, a flowering shrub species species native to the deserts of southern California, Arizona and northern Mexico

José A. Muguerza

In April 2001, Muguerza Group partnered with Christus Health Systems in the US and formed the Christus Muguerza Group alliance, the largest healthcare system in northern Mexico.

Lasthenia

Lasthenia gracilis – Common Goldfields (found in California, Arizona, the Channel Islands of California, and northern Mexico)

Linanthus bigelovii

It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it grows mainly in dry habitat, such as the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts.

Lycée Franco-Mexicain

It is one of the largest French Lycées in the world with over 3000 students in two campuses, Polanco in northern Mexico City and Coyoacán in the South, there is also another dependency located in the city of Cuernavaca, capital of the state of Morelos, called École Molière de Cuernavaca.

Mescalero

Nautzili (aka Natzili, Nautzile, Nodzilla - "buffalo", chief of the Guhlkahéndé and southern Lipan splinter groups living in northern Mexico, moved to reservation in 1876, had assumed in 1879 leadership of the largest number of Mescalero reservation bands (including the Lipan) and persuaded many warriors not to join the Chihenne chief Victorio in Victorio's War)

MMCinemas

It was originally formed by Grupo Multimedios (largest media conglomerate in Northern Mexico), but in 2006 was sold to Southern Cross Group and Morgan Stanley.

Órale

As a greeting, the word was used by Cheech Marin in his 1987 film Born in East L.A. in the phrase Órale vato, ¡wassápenin! meaning All right man!, what's happening? a popular phrase used by Mexican Americans who have taken the gitano word vato from northern Mexico slang to mean man.

Oralia Domínguez

She was born in the city of San Luis Potosí in northern Mexico and studied at the National Conservatory of Music where she made the acquaintance of the composer Carlos Chavez who championed her career.

P. mexicana

Purshia mexicana, the Mexican cliffrose, a perennial flowering small tree species native to western-northern Mexico and the southwestern United States

Prunus mexicana, the Mexican plum, a tree species found in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States as well as Northern Mexico

P. microphyllus

Philadelphus microphyllus, the littleleaf mock-orange, a plant species native to northern Mexico and the southwestern quadrant of the United States as far north as Wyoming

Pinus greggii

The species name greggii honors Josiah Gregg (1806 – 1850), a merchant, explorer, naturalist, and author of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.

R. aureum

Ribes aureum, the buffalo currant, clove currant, golden currant or Missouri currant, a shrub species native to Canada, most of the United States (except the southeast) and northern Mexico

Refried beans

In northern Mexico and in American Tex-Mex cuisine, refried beans are usually prepared with pinto beans, but many other varieties of bean are used in other parts of Mexico, such as black or red beans.

S. lateralis

Scincella lateralis, the little brown skink or ground skink, a small skink species found throughout much of the eastern half of the United States and into northern Mexico

Serdán

Aquiles Serdán Municipality, one of the 67 municipalities of Chihuahua in northern Mexico

Sin Dejar Huella

In the film, Ana, a fake Mayan art smuggler, and Aurelia, a maquiladora worker, flee from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua in Northern Mexico and those who pursue them to Cancún in the Yucatán peninsula province of Quintana Roo.

Spanish bayonet

Yucca faxoniana — Chihuahuan Desert region of northern Mexico and Southwestern U.S.

Yucca schidigera — Mojave Desert and Sonoran Desert regions of Southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico.

T. plicata

Tiquilia plicata, the fanleaf crinklemat, a perennial, subshrub-like plant species found in the southwestern United States and Northern Mexico

Turpentine bush

Ericameria laricifolia, native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico