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Northern Mexico (Spanish: el Norte de México IPA: [el ˈnoɾte ðe ˈmexiko] ⓘ), commonly referred as El Norte, is an informal term for the northern cultural and geographical area in Mexico. Depending on the source, it contains some or all of the states of Baja California , Baja California Sur , Chihuahua , Coahuila , Durango , Nuevo León ...
It set out, in Article 43, the parties making up the federation – 24 states, 1 federal territory, and the Federal District known as the Valley of Mexico (today Mexico City). The territories of Sierra Gorda, Tehuantepec and Isla del Carmen, and Nuevo León as an independent state, disappeared (Nuevo León was later restored).
The territories of Mexico in 1952 (brown). The territories of Mexico are part of the history of 19th and 20th century independent Mexico . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The country created territories ( territorios ) for areas too lightly populated to be states ( estados ), or for political reasons.
Territorial expansion of the United States; Mexican Cession in pink. Soon after the war started and long before negotiation of the new Mexico–United States border, the question of slavery in the territories to be acquired polarized the Northern and Southern United States in the bitterest sectional conflict up to this time, which lasted for a deadlock of four years during which the Second ...
The geography of Mexico describes the geographic features of Mexico, a country in the Americas. Mexico is located at about 23° N and 102° W [1] in the southern portion of North America. [2] [3] From its farthest land points, Mexico is a little over 3,200 km (2,000 mi) in length.
Mexico, [a] [b] officially the United Mexican States, [c] is a country in the southern portion of North America.It borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundaries with the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the southeast, and the Gulf of Mexico to the east. [12]
The Provincias Internas (Spanish: Inner Provinces), also known as the Comandancia y Capitanía General de las Provincias Internas (Commandancy and General Captaincy of the Inner Provinces), was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1776 to provide more autonomy for the frontier provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day northern Mexico and the Southwestern ...
The new republic claimed as part of its territory northern Tamaulipas. Tamaulipas in Mexico, 1824. In 1840, it became a part of the short-lived Republic of the Rio Grande. In 1848, after the Mexican–American War, Tamaulipas lost more than a quarter of its territory via the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.