Cars designed and built in Mexico:

These cars are beautiful!

• Mastretta
• vhul 05
• This youtube video compares both cars.

Foods, drinks and plants that originate in Mexico

• The tomato .- How many recipes use the tomato? Can you imagine Mexican, Italian or any other cuisine with out tomatoes?
• Vanilla .- At one time the most expensive spice in the world, and even today one of the most used spices.
• The Cocoa bean and Chocolate .- You are welcomed world! 🙂
• Sun flowers .- One of the most iconic flowers in the world. It was first cultivated in Mexico.
• Noche buena .- Again one of the most recognized flowers in the world, cultivated by the Aztecs.
• The Margarita .-  Very famous drink, invented in Mexico.
• The cesar salad .- This type of salad is very well known in the United States, and quite popular.
• The Burrito
• The  Taco
• The Avocado .-  One of my favorites ! and who has not heard of guacamole?
• The Nopal
• Maiz  (Corn) it is such an important staple of modern foods that it is hard to imagine a world with out it.
•  Agave &  Tequila
• Aztec marigold
• Dalea
• Nardo
•  And of course the chile pepper!

Just to name a few.

Mexican inventions and discoveries

• The use of the number Zero in mathematic calculations .- This invention has been called “The equal of any other invention in the history of humanity”.
• The birth control pill
• The first automatic rifle (The Modragon rifle)
• The color TV
• Discovery of vanadium
• Gnome A popular desktop environment for the Linux OS.
• The discovery of the ozone hole
• the concept of a hyperdrive, invented by Miguel Alcubirre
• intelligent automobiles,

World Heritage sites Historical and  cultural contributions

• The great pyramid of Cholula .- One of the biggest pyramids in the world
• Mexico is in the top 6 countries with most world heritage sites Here is the list
• Gaspar Yanga .- The first liberator of America.
• The Mariachi .- who has not heard about Mariachi music?
• The Charro (where cowboys come from) .- It is interesting to me that everyone thinks that cowboys are an American (United States) invention, but they are actually of Mexican origin.