My Aussie friends are always surprised with my Mexican road trip stories.
Mexico is a much bigger country than people imagine.
The drive from Tijuana to Mexico City is 31 hours. And if you kept heading east to Cancun, you could drive for another 19 hours.
There is a lot to do and tons to see.
As big as it is today, Mexico is less than half the size it once was.
The First Mexican Empire’s vast territory was bigger than the USA when it first gained independence from Spain.
In fact, it included a large portion of Texas, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Utah.
Era un imperio enorme (it was a enormous empire.)
El Primer Imperio Mexicano (The first Mexico Empire) also included Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Those countries became the Central America Republic and later the separate countries we know today.
That’s why we find seven countries celebrating independence from Spain between September 15 and 18.
Chile, while not linked to the Mexican Independence, also celebrates its independence around the same time on September 18, making it the seventh Spanish-speaking country to celebrate its independence between September 15 and 18.
Click here to experience your independence in Spanish
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we need to take back mexico as it was back
then.
Excelente ! Gracias !
I have always had a good grip on European and Old World geography because it is necessary to follow the long,convoluted,and largely depressing,history of the area.By contrast my knowledge of the New World geography is pretty shaky.So I am obliged for that little wake-up call about the size of Mexico.I must find out what the size of the Mexican Empire would be if you included ALL of its erstwhile “possessions” like California,Texas and New Mexico.
Another area of investigation might be whether it can truly be said that Mexico ever had an “empire” in the sense that the Romans or the Romanovs Or the Hapsburgs or the Brits had an empire.!!
Guess it will have to wait until the woefully complicated study of the political scene prior to the Spanish Civil War is better understood.
Marcus what HAVE you DONE ???
thank you for that history lesson. i did not know that.how far is it by water from mexico to u.s. cost?
I found this article very interesting i dont know much about mexican history but it has prompted me to find out more,especialy when you hear the likes of Trump going on about building walls to keep mexicans out of the USA. Maybe he should take a history lesson or two !!!