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Copper Canyon
Great photos and narrative of the Copper Canyon Train Ride in Northern Mexico. The train passes through 86 tunnels and crosses 36 bridges on it's way to the Barranca del Cobre, which is deeper than the Grand Canyon and, as you will see, quite different.
Beyond Your Expectations
Cozumel, Acapulco, Veracruz, and other famous vacation destinations are all covered in this article, plus many more, including the great Copper Canyon in Chihuahua. Mexico is famous worldwide for providing visitors with unique and unforgettable vacation experiences.
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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century. The nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution, and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population in the impoverished southern states. The elections held in 2000 marked the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that an opposition candidate - Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) - defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was succeeded in 2006 by another PAN candidate Felipe CALDERON. --
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