Why "Nobody" Lives In This HUGE Area Of Mexico
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Published 2024-04-02
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Mexico is a huge country. With nearly 130 million people, 22 million of which live in Mexico City, the country ranks 10th in terms of population. Despite the vast amount of people, however, there exists a large swath in the middle that has very few people relative to this size. And this area effectively cuts the country in half, from the the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. Here's why "nobody" lives in Mexico's Empty Belt.
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All Comments (21)
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Short answer: desert, no rivers and greenery and more mountainous terrain.
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My family lives close to there! In the state of Hidalgo. It's an indigenous town, the population exploded to 1000 recently. Yeah, it's that small. It's in the middle of a desert valley. It's pretty isolated. But it's close to a decent sized city named Ixmiquilpan, which my ancestors built.
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I am from the central area of this Mexico’s “Empty Belt”. (Zacatecas state)
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I believe half of Mexico lives within the central highland subtropical belt around Mexico City. North of it is mostly mountains and deserts, south of it mostly jungle terrain.
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There's a big mistake on the land occupied by the viceroy of the new Spain, it was way larger than it's shown in here
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Just a clarification. The New Spain map as shown in 2:38 is incorrect. The territory of New Spain was much larger including all of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and parts of Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming. Also, all of Central America except Panama.
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Mexico, tremendous country! Such a privilege site on Earth!
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Living in Coahuila was so odd yet beautiful
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I make a small correction about the most populated cities, Ciudad Victoria is not the most populated urban area but the metropolitan area of Zacatecas with 409,000 people, now without considering the metropolitan area the third most populated city is Guadalupe and not Zacatecas with 170,000 and 130,000 respectively, still very excellent video explaining the geographical area where I live
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Excellent presentation.
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this video has about 3 minutes of content.
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Why the map doesn't mark Texas as Viceroyalty of New Spain before Mexico's indepence? 3:15
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I’ve always been interested in the geography of Mexico and your video has satisfies my curiosity satisfactorily. Many thanks 🙏🏽
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Cool video! I'm from the northwest of Guerrero by Ciudad Altamirano
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It's so funny how you pronounce Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl 😂😂😂😂
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As a Zacatecano living in the US, this is true. Family mostly grew corn and raised cattle but those 2 industries are very drought dependant and a lot of us just went north instead. Beautiful region though, especially when the monsoons do hit.
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Ese cinturón es la región de Convergncia intertropical donde los vientos alisios ecuatoriales y los vientoas contralisios del Norte tienen uun área "neutral" donde la humedad es muy escasa,
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Next April 1, you have to do Antarctica
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I got 10 minutes to wait for this to premier.
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Nice video, as usual but, I did notice it says "Cascadia" behind you? Are you pro Cascadia?
