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Though the major languange of Mexico is primarily Spanish, 5.7% also speak indigenous languages such as Mayan, Nahuatl, and other regional languages.

MEXICO!

Traditional Mexican Dance:

Genres of Mexican Music:

Banda

Cumbia

Norteno

The Banda music is an offspring of Norteo. Instead of accordion and guitar, Banda uses primarily brass instruments. The most characteristic instrument is the sousaphone, which plays with a hard drive on the beats. The music usually incorporates several trumpets, clarinets, a marching bass drum, snare drum, and cymbals.

In the 1800s, Mexico’s music, like many other countries, began to expand and flourish. One of the earliest genres of Mexican music was Norteo (also called Conjunto), which began in the 1830s. Norteo music began as simple ballads put into waltz meter with guitar accompaniment. Today it has expanded to include the rhythm of polka and is typically performed with an accordion, a bajo sexto (a type of 12 string Mexican guitar), a bass guitar, and a drum set.

Cumbia music originated when African and American Indian slaves were taken to Latin America. The two groups used music as a means of preserving their own cultures, producing the very percussion oriented cumbia. The music is often performed in 4/4 meter with many African drums and claves and American Indian giro, millo flute, and gaita flute. Later the guitar and accordion were added from Spanish influences. Today the addition of more woodwinds, deeply toned modern drums, and the bass guitar create a more modern sound. Cumbia was often performed as a traditional courting dance by the lower classes, but today is sometimes performed by the upper class as well.

The President of the United States of Mexico is President Felipe de Jesus Calderon Hinojosa since December 1, 2006.

Mexico Hall of Fame!

Population: 109,955,400

Government type: Federal Republic

Mexican Independace day is September 16th (1810)

The colors of the mexican flag, white, green and red, represent hope, unity, and the blood of Mexico's national heroes, respectively. The coat of arms of the eagle holding the snake is derived from an Aztec legend, where a heathen God directed a nomadic tribe to settle where they saw an Eagle devouring a snake.