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2,631 Articles of interest in Mexico

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  • Mismaloya

    Mismaloya comes from Nahuatl: [michmaloyan] "place where they grab fish with their hands" and is a small village, located on the coast of the Bahía de Banderas in the Mexican state of Jalisco [Xalixco] "on the surface of the sand".

  • Milpa Alta

    Milpa Alta is one of the 16 boroughs into which Mexico's Federal District is divided. It lies in the southeast corner of the Distrito Federal, bordering the State of Mexico and Morelos. It is the second largest and most rural of all the boroughs wit…

  • La Huasteca (climbing area)

    La Huasteca is the first climbing area in Monterrey, Mexico, only 15 minutes from the city. With nearly 300 bolted routes with grades from 5.4 to 5.14d, it is the favorite place for weekend climbers.

  • Jalpan de Serra

    Jalpan de Serra (Spanish   ) is a town and municipality located in the north of the state of Querétaro, Mexico. It is located in the heart of an important ecological zone called the Sierra Gorda. It is also the site two of five Franciscan missions, …

  • Jalostotitlán

    Jalostotitlán is a town and municipality located in the northeast corner of the state of Jalisco, Mexico, in a region known as Los Altos.

  • Desierto de los Leones National Park

    Desierto de los Leones (Desert of the Lions) National Park is located entirely within the limits of the Federal District, it stretches between Cuajimalpa and Álvaro Obregón boroughs. It is located in the Sierra de las Cruces mountain range west of t…

  • Cuetzalan

    Cuetzalan (Spanish  [kwetsa'lan] is a small town set high in the hills in the north of the Mexican state of Puebla, 183 kilometers from Puebla, the state capital.

  • Cola de Caballo

    Cola de Caballo (Spanish for "Horse Tail") is a waterfall about 40 km (25 mi) from Monterrey, Mexico, in the town of Villa de Santiago, Nuevo León. It is open to the public and is accessible via a walking path.

  • Cofre de Perote

    Cofre de Perote, originally Naupa-Tecutépetl (from Nāuhpa-Tēuctēpetl in the Nahuatl language), is known also as Nauhcampatépetl. Both Nahuatl names mean something like 'Place of Four Mountain' or 'Mountain of the Lord of Four Places'.

  • Ciudad Guzmán

    Ciudad Guzmán (also known as simply Guzmán) is a city in the Mexican state of Jalisco. It is located at (19°42′N103°28′W), 124 km south of Guadalajara, at a height of 1,507 meters above sea level.

  • Basaseachic Falls

    Basaseachic Falls on the Basaseachic River is the second-highest waterfall in Mexico, located in the Parque Nacional Basaseachic (Basaseachic Falls National Park) at Cañon Basaseachic in the Copper Canyon region of northwest Mexico, near Creel, Chih…

  • Bahía Kino

    Bahía Kino is a town in the Mexican state of Sonora, Hermosillo (municipality), on the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California); it was named after Eusebio Kino. The name also applies to the adjacent bay between Tiburón Island and Punta San Nicolás, Sonor…

  • Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park

    The Arrecifes de Cozumel National Park is off the coast of the island of Cozumel in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The Cozumel reef system is part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second largest coral reef system in the world. Even t…

  • Acámbaro

    Acámbaro is a city and municipality in the southeastern corner of the Mexican state of Guanajuato, on the banks of the Lerma River, and the oldest of the 46 municipalities of Guanajuato. Acámbaro is noted as a major railway junction, a local transpo…

  • 2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup

    The 2010 CONCACAF Women's Championship served as the region's 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Qualifiers. The tournament finals took place from 28 October to 8 November 2010 in Cancún, Mexico. Officially, this marked the sixth edition of the competition…

  • Sierra de San Pedro Mártir

    Sierra de San Pedro Mártir (English: mountains of Saint Peter the Martyr) is a mountain range that is one of the Peninsular Ranges of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico. At 3,096 m (10,157 ft), the highest peak is the Picacho del Diablo, also kno…

  • Shafter, Texas

    Shafter is an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas. The Texas Attorney General's Office gives a population of 11 as of the 2000 Census. It was named in honor of General William R. Shafter, who at one point commanded the nearby (relativ…

  • San Pablo Guelatao

    San Pablo Guelatao is a town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca and the seat of the municipality of Guelatao de Juárez, about 55 km north of the city of Oaxaca. Guelatao, as it is often called, is in the foothills of the Sierra de Juárez, part of the Si…

  • Sahuayo

    Sahuayo (nahuatl: Tzacuātlayotl) is a city in the state of Michoacán, in western México, near the southern shore of Lake Chapala. It serves as the municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of the same name. Sahuayo was an important center for …

  • Pánuco River

    The Pánuco River (Spanish: Río Pánuco) ( 'panuko ) is a river in Mexico fed by its tributary the Moctezuma River and emptying into the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Punta Allen

    Punta Allen (Spanish pronunciation: ['punta 'alen]), (officially Javier Rojo Gómez) is the largest village in the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve at the end of the Boca Paila peninsula in Tulum Municipality in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo.

  • Magdalena Bay

    Bahía Magdalena (Magdalena Bay) is a 50 km long bay in Comondú Municipality along the western coast of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur.

  • Lerma River

    The Lerma River (Spanish: Río Lerma) is Mexico's second longest river. It is a 750 km-long (470 mi) river in west-central Mexico that begins in Mexican Plateau at an altitude over 3,000 metres (9,843 ft) above sea level, and ends where it empties in…