Mexico is a country of southern North America and the third largest country in Latin America. It is one of the chief economic and political forces in Latin America, with a dynamic industrial base, vast mineral resources, a wide-ranging service sector, an
Taxco, city, northern Guerrero estado (state), south-central Mexico. It lies on the slopes of Atache Hill, at 5,758 feet (1,755 meters) above sea level, in the Taxco Mountains. The place was a mining center in pre-Columbian times. The Indian settlement (
Monterrey, Mexico Monterrey is the heart of one the country’s largest urban agglomerations. With a mixture of services andmanufacturing, it is also the key to Nuevo León’s status as the third largest state economy in Mexico, after theFederal Districtand the state ofMéxico. Heavy industries...