ECO TOURISM IN MEXICO - MAIN FEATURES

Official name:

Estados Unidos Mexicanos (United States of Mexico)

Location and borders:

Mexico is located in the south of USA and borders on the North the United States, on the southeast Guatemala and Belize, on the east the Golf of Mexico and on the West and southwest the Pacific Ocean.

Total land area:

Mexico has an extension of 1,972,550 km²

Capital:

The Capital of Mexico is Mexico City.

Administrative Divisions:

The United States of Mexico conform a federation with 31 states and 1 federal district:

Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatán y Zacatecas

Official language:

Spanish and since 2003 a total of 62 indigenous Amerindian languages.

Government:

Federal Presidential Republic

Population:

According to the estimation 2005: 103,263,388

Currency:

Peso mexicano (Mexican Peso)