On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a parish priest from the town of Dolores, issued a call to rebellion. In response, rebel leader Vicente Guerrero and defected royalist general Agustín de Itúrbide collaborated to gain Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821.
Almost all of Mexico is on the North American Plate, with small parts of the Baja California Peninsula in the northwest on the Pacific and Cocos Plates. Some geographers include the portion east of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec including the Yucatán Peninsula within North America.
HOW MANY STATES ARE IN MEXICO AND WHAT IS ITS CAPITAL
Mexico City, or the City of Mexico is the capital and most populous city of Mexico. Mexico City is one of the most important financial centers in the Americas. It is located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México)
Mexico City, Jalisco, Chiapas, Nuevo León, Michoacán, Oaxaca, Baja California,Puebla, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Baja California Sur, Veracruz, Guanajuato, Sinaloa, Sonora, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Hidalgo, Quintana Roo, Guerrero, Queretaro, Morea