Transcript Mexico Today - Collinsville Public Schools

Mexico
Today
10.3 Pg. 229
Mexico’s Regions
 Divided
into 31 states and the capital district.
 Useful to divide the country 4 regions to study.
Greater Mexico City
 Greater
Mexico City is the cultural, economic and
political center of Mexico.
 Huge metropolis includes many smaller cities and
may hold a fourth of Mexico’s entire population.
 Monumental government buildings.
 Countries largest university is there.
 Aztec ruins.
Continued
 Draws
many new residents.
 Too few jobs.
 Some people live in huge settlements of shacks
built from waste wood and sheet metal, have no
electricity, sewer or safe water supply.
 Great wealth also exists in Mexico City.
 Terrible air pollution.
Mexico City
Central Mexico
 Stretches
northwest of Mexico city and across the
Mexican Plateau.
 Mexico’s second-largest city, Guadalajara.
 Fertile valley dot central Mexico.
 Once the great grain producing area
 Once cash crops were grown here – crops grown
for sale in a market.
Guadalajara
Gulf Lowlands and Southern Mexico
 Used
the regions hot humid tropical forests and
savannas for grazing for growing sugarcane.
 Large forests areas have been cleared for
commercial farming and ranching.
 Veracruz, an important seaport and
communications area.
 Rich deposits of oil and natural gas have long been
key to this region.
Veracruz
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 Yucatan
Peninsula is Mexico’s poorest region. Few
cities and little industry.
 Schools are inadequate, more and more people
head north for jobs.
Northern Mexico
 One
of the most prosperous parts of the country.
 New and Modern.
 Roads are good and telephones work well.
 Factories and commercial farms draw migrant
workers from all over Mexico.
 Read Border Towns on pg. 232.
Northern Mexico Economy