New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 23

THOSE 28 STATES OF RABID MEXICO Through Long-Named Districts Long-Named Districts TRY YOUR TONGUE @N THESE Names of Mexican states most difficult for Americans and their, approximate pronuncia- tions are: Chihuahua, che-wah'- wah; Coahuila, ko-a-wee' Zacateci Washington, D, C., March 22.— To follow the news stories from Mexico requires an acquaintance with the 2§ stat of Mexico. “The average American, familiar with Canadian Provinces, would he hard put to tell whether Chiapes is on the acific or Atlantic; where Nayarit is; if Campeche is east or west; OF even to pronounce Agu calientes,” says a bul from the Washington, D. C. headquarters of the Nation Geographic Society | which describes the common- wealths of our neighhor Republic. “In Mexico also are two terri- torics. One is Lower California, dr arid, mountainous and thin; lated. Fiftcen hundred miles away from Lower California lies Mexico's er territory, Quintana Roo, thest south and cast. Puncturing a Geographice Myth “It is common to think of Mexico | prouting south from southwest United States, ) vosition of the two Mexican terr | torics punctures this geographic myth. Mexico 13 not a thin nation. Tt is just as wide as )t is long. While its westernmost city is Tia Juana, over the internatiopal line from San Divgo, California, the outermost point of the Yucatan Peninsula lies as far cast as Indianapolis. The United States has one small- | er state th Mexico’s smallest Rhode Ishind is 300 souare mile smaller than Tlaxcs which lies 50 miles cast of Mexico City. Colima, a state : <t of Mexico directly . tal, meas- ures less than Delawarc. But the t state of Mexico, Chihuahua, the border from New Mexico, | h smaller than the American . Teas, It approrimates Ore- or Illinois and Indiana taken v the Annapolis of Mexico 15 by a sign on the railway cu that Lineberg sition, velations 1 co City mig to those bhe Washinkton. state capital to the and its state enclose District just as Maryl the District of Columbia however, the comparisons are not so close, Both Mexico Cily and Toluca high platean and are sur- d by moun Situated 40 from M 3 Toluca is 5y the Toluca. come the bullri of ez founded the city conguest. 1t lies King of of which s both ne. In ad- it in- L and miner- layers of soil which grow pineapples, dates, bananas, pomegranates, figs, and lemons. Queretaro sweet potatoes have a reputation in Mexico like Idaho po- tatoes have in the United States. The situation of Queretaro City, capital of the state, 2,000 feet higher above sea level than Denver, gives further clue to phe surrounding geography. Mexico clasees Queretaro as one of the Estados del Centros, occupying the elevated Valley of Mexico. Through Queretaro run the trade routes from the north, converging on Mexico City. And by the trade routes come the famous Mexican opals mined in Queretaro Mountaina. Indlan Tribal Boundaries Used “The States of Mexico were or- iginally laid out to coincide roughly { with the arcas occupied by the In- | dian tribes which the Spaniards conquered. Then the conquerors ap- | portioned the districts among them- | selves. Thus Hernando Cortez was | ‘Marques del Valle' of Caxaca. As Marques’ he laid waste the Zapotee Indians’® chief town, built & new city {on the same site and named it An- tequera, after a town of Spain near Malaga. When Mexico won its in- dependence from Spain, the city re- sumed its old Zapotec name, Huaxi- acac (modified in Spanish to Oaxa- | ca) and the state took the same ti- tle. This is a story repeated with variations many times in Mexico. Practicaily all the states have re- sumed their Indian names. There |are exceptions such as the states of s Potosi, Guana- juato and Nuevo Leon. Low, High and Migher “Although the ancient Aztecs Zapotecs, and Mayas are responsible for the houndaries of modern states | of Mexico, the horders often out- line definite geographic units. There classification handy for Mexican | states which our Republic cannot use to advantage. In Mexico there re Jow statcs, high states and high- | er states. The low states are the wstern scaboard units from north to south, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Vera Cruz and Tabasco. The Yuca- l1an Peninsula group of Campeche. Yucatan and Quiniana Roo glso | hugs sea level. Pacific coastal states |are, for the most part, low states too, but not so low as cast coast states; Xono Nayarit, Colima. Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chipas. Then come the high states that is, those which are 3,000 fec above sea level, Chihuahua, Coah la and Durango. The first two lie in the Rio Grande basin between the wide open arms of the mountain ranges that horder the famous Val- ley of Mexico. “South of Durango are the high- er states, and. it may be added the )t nd the most populous and the richest states of Mexico. The 1verage clevation of 11 states and the Federal District is more than a 1. Orizaba Peak, southeast of Mexico City, ¥ pin of a gigantic pair of dividers opened to a sixty degree Sach arm of the dividers is a mountain range. the left arm con- necting with the Rocky Mountains ind the right losing itself at Mon- terrey Has Tts “Federal District” “Between the arme spreads the fertile mi h or higher region of blue lakes and fruitful valleys, ele- vated o h to have an equable cli- mate. Just as the mountain ranges converge Orizaba, so the trade routes converge on Mexico City. Like Washington, the Mexican capital has theen isolated within a small *Distrito Iederal,’ administered by the Na- tional Congress. But there is this difference, Mexico City is the New York as well as the Washington of Mexico. Its population of 806,000 nearly cquals that of the most popu- lous of the nation's provinces. “Just as the United States has, in the State of Washington, a common- wealth named for the hero of its revolution, so dexico has honored the father of its freedom Spain. Padre Hidalgo was a s pricst in Dolores, in the State of Guanajuato, until he led the revolu- 1510, Dolores hus now be- Dolores Hidalo. Hidalgo Statc mountainous in s cross the relat- ing a maze of 1 ridges. In this tangle of tains are some of the heaviest in the Republic. v area of $.600 square the Valley of Mexico has Leen carved out to make the Btat of Hidalgo. South of Mexico City another relatively small state, Mor- clos, honors another hero of Mexi- co’s war of independence. 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But its valley |warm valleys coffee acres, with sparkling lakes sur ‘rw\r Cattle raisin rounded by farms, support the ma-|dustry on the 4ric jor part of its population. To Mich- | mountainous dist oacan many other traveled Amer-|gold and silver min icans go annually in the late 11| in a Qery old settled 1 for the blue lakes beckon flocks of |larzely in the Spanish ‘American’ wild ducks and s 1es of the sixteenth « wintering in the Southland. Because | importont railway connects of the varicty of ifs products Mich- | tal of the state, a city o oacan earns high rank among Mexi- | tun ited in the cool | can states. It is the greatest cercal |With the port of I growing state of the Republic, and, | Gulf of exico. in addition. produces coffee, sugar, | Luis Potosi fruits, vanilla, wine and tobacco. {eathe “San Luis Potosi is one of Mexi- |of Spa co's inland states, consisting of tes. 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