Mexico L10n Guide: Environment

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Architecture

The architecture of Mexico is rich in history because in the territory the buildings are a representation of each phase: prehispanic, Spanish colonisation and modern architecture. Nowadays, the style of Mexican Architecture is a mix of these periods. After 1920 it started to develop its own identity because before that it was highly influenced by the European civilisation.

Prehispanic

Baroque

Spanish Colonial

Neoclassic

Art Nouveau

Modern Colonial

Contemporary buildings

Contemporary houses

Places

Ciudad de México

Bosque de Chapultepec, Xochimilco, art, financial city, capital, business, aztec, Teotihuacán, temples, subway, cosmopolitan, festivals

Riviera Maya

Cancún, Playa del Carmen, Holbox, Tulum, Calakmul, Bacalar, Chichén Itzá, beaches, temples, tourism, jungle, paradise, mayan

León

Guanajuato, hot air balloons, tourism, handicraft, cathedral, churches, museums, colorful houses, fur clothing, religion

Puebla

Cholula, churches, museums, traditional candies, markets, colorful buildings, library, volcanos, national parks, historical

Oaxaca

handicraft, Monte Albán, food, Hierve el Agua, walls (murales), Mitla, Templo de Santo Domingo, mercado Juárez, tribes, religious

Baja California N&S

Tijuana, Los Cabos, frontier, business, immigration, cosmopolitan, tourism, beaches, rocks, whales, nature, urban

San Luis Potosí

Xilitla, Río Verde, lagoons, springs, archeological zone, Cerro de San Pedro, waterfalls, nature

Chiapas

Cañón del Sumidero, waterfalls, tourism, culture, nature, archelogical zones, jungle, Palenque, religious, markets, tribes

Northeastern region

Ciudad Juárez, Tampico, Monterrey, Saltillo, business, desert, semidesert, mountains, immigration, tourism, cumbia, urban

Jalisco

cathedrals, churches, food, tequila, beaches, mariachi, traditional dances, archeological zones, National parks, gardens, business, busy

Nature

Mexico has a diversity of environments. There are deserts in the north, fertile valleys and high mountains in the centre, and tropical forests in the south and east. There are weather variations, in some regions, there are the four seasons but in the Riviera Maya region, there are only two seasons: rainy season and dry season.