16/08/2023
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT MEXICO 🇲🇽:
🇲🇽 Its official name is not Mexico, but the United Mexican States.
🇲🇽 Although its flag was created in 1821, it took 147 years to become official in 1968.
🇲🇽 Home to the largest pyramid, did you think that the pyramids of Egypt were second to none? The Great Pyramid of Cholula measures 450 meters by 450 meters, rising 55 meters above the plain where construction began around 300 AD.
🇲🇽 Spanish-speaking country with the most inhabitants, Logic would say that Spain is where Spanish is spoken the most. But with more than 120 million inhabitants, Mexico surpasses any other country.
🇲🇽 There are 68 recognized languages, One of the most unknown curiosities of Mexico is that there are 68 native languages and 364 recognized linguistic variants in the country in addition to Spanish. Surprisingly, Mexico does not have any official language.
🇲🇽 The world's largest beer exporter, the Corona brand is the best known in other countries.
🇲🇽 Coca Cola is the preferred soft drink, Mexico is the country with the highest consumption of Coca Cola on the entire planet. The devotion goes so far that in the town of San Juan Chamula, Coca Cola is literally considered a holy drink.
🇲🇽 Chocolate was a Mexican discovery. The Olmec, Aztec, Toltec and Maya civilizations are to be thanked!
🇲🇽 Impressive rituals, One of the most impressive Aztec rituals was to sacrifice between 10,000 and 50,000 people each year. They had the belief that the world would end if human blood did not flow.
🇲🇽 The largest university in the world is Mexican.
UNAM has more than 360,000 enrolled students. With those figures, it is the largest in the world. It was founded in 1551, also earning the record for being the oldest university in North America.
🇲🇽 "Due to its shape, Mexico is a country like no other in the world: With its two peninsulas and its two gulfs, it sways on both sides of the Tropic of Cancer.
To the north it displays deserts and drought, to the south it is wrapped in jungles and humidity.
🇲🇽 Mexico is like an immense crumpled paper, full of mountain ranges, mountains, plateaus, volcanoes and plains, where all climates exist and a tenth of the plants and animals on the planet are concentrated".
🇲🇽 We are lucky to live in one of the most beautiful countries in the world 🌍