Mexican Sports

In mexico sports are a really big thing.  Soccer is the main sport in mexico, but boxing, basketball, baseball, golf wrestling, bullfighting and Charrería are are really big.  Soccer has been played professionally in mexico since the early 1900's. Mexico has hosted two FIFA world cups one in 1970 and one in 1986.  Many of the stadiums in use around the league have a world cup history.  Sites such as Estadio Jalisco in Guadalarjara, Estadio Techologia in Monterry and Estadio Azteca in mexico city are reowned and for national and international history.  Boxing is the second biggest sport in mexico.  Mexico is second only to the United States in total number of world champions produced but has recently produced more World Champions in the last 30 years

I learned that sports in mexico are a really big thing just like sports in the united states.  I knew that soccer was one of the big sports in mexico i had no idea though that boxing was second.  I also learned that sports in mexico kind of have the same rules that sports in the United States have.  It would be cool to go to mexico to see how they play some of there sports just to see how diffrent it is.

Mexican Cars and Laws

In 1903, is when cars first arrived in Mexico.  There were 136 cars in mexico within the first year.  And By 1906 there were over 800 cars.  There top speed was 25 mph. There was a tax on car owners until 1911.  The first car in mexico was a buick.  In 1925, Ford Motor Company was also established, and as of 2011 remains the longest-running brand in the country.  There are also special restrictions on when you can drive your car in mexico.  Like if your plates end in a 5 or 6 then you can't drive on Mondays and the first Saturday of the month.  Plates ending in a 7 or 8 you cant drive on Tuesdays and the second saturday of the month.  Plates ending in 3 or 4 cant drive on wensdays and the third saturday of the month.  Plates ending in 1 or 2 cannot be driven on thursaday or the fourth saturday of the month.  If they end in a 9 or 0 you cannot drive on Friday but you CAN drive on saturday.

I learned that mexican car companys got started really early.  And there were only a few cars in mexico when they first came out.  Even after a couple of years there still wernt many cars but now mexico has the same amount of cars as the united states if not more than us.  I also learned that mexico is really strict when you can drive.  That is much diffrent than here because we can drive whenever we want and we dont have a schedle when we can drive.

This picture gives you an idea on what kind of cars
people in Mexico drive.

mexicos pollution

In recent years, Mexico has faced extremly high levels of pollution.  The pollution levels are so high it is causing a lot of  heath problems.  Mexico city, Guadalajara, and Cidudad Juarez are the most polluted, but Mexico City is the worst one of the worsts among the world.  Mexico city's air is rated at 179 mg per cubic meter of suspended particulates.  The average is around 90.  Exaust fumes from Mexico city 3 million cars is the main source of pollutants. In Mexico City, poisines air and choking smoke from forest fires is costing Mexico millions dollars a day in lost industirial production and extra health costs.  In 1998 Mexico City declared a fourth consecutive day of smog emergincies.  There is an estimated 500,000 mexico city residents have some sort of health problem.  Of those up to 5,000 have a cronic deadly diesese.

I have learned alot about pollution in mexico like that mexico has deadly high levels of pollutin.  Its causing many health problems.  There are three major citys that have really high levels of pollutin.  those citys are almost double of what the average is.  If more people walked instead of driving cars that would also reduce the amount of pollution in the air.  Forest fires are also a big deal for mexico along with the big indistries.  Thats what i learned about mexicos polluitin.




This is a picture of the pollution in one of mexicos major city.