Slideshow on “Latin America & the Caribbean” for World Regional Geography – © Mark M. Miller, Dept. of Geography & Geology, The University of Southern Mississippi

1. Visit Mexico. Retrieved April 2, 2014: https://www.visitmexico.com/en/maya-world
OVERVIEW OF LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
© Mark M. Miller
World Regional Geography
Dept. of Geography & Geology
The University of Southern Mississippi

2. Mexico’s demographic
transition:

3. North Carolina State U. Retrieved
March 24, 2010:
http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/
a.htm

4. Evergreen University.
Government documents.
Retrieved March 22, 2010:
http://govdocs.evergreen.edu/ho
topics/hispanicheritage/latin-
america-political-map.jpg

5. Post-Panamax
container ships:
almost 400 yards
long.
Diana Containerships. August 13,
2013:
http://www.ship.gr/news6/diana_c2
7.htm

6. 05_01t.jpg

7. Globalization & Diversity
2e: Rowntree, Lewis,
7
Physical Geography
(Fig. 4.7)
Altiplano in Bolivia, showing
Lake Titicaca with an
elevation of 12,500 feet
(Fig. 4.8)

8. Latin America’s contrasts of
great poverty…..

9. El Periodico de Mexico. Retrieved March 22, 2010:
http://www.elperiodicodemexico.com/nota.php?id=85893
... With enormous wealth.
Mr. Carlos Slim

10. The Apple. Retrieved March 22, 2010:
http://theapple.monster.com/topics/3613-how-does-he-do-
it/posts
Stereotypes we have of Mexico, such as the
lazy rural life….

11. Any stereotypes that
Mexicans might have of
us?

12. CNN. Retrieved 5/2/06:
http://edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/americas/03/31/mexico.time.change/m
ap.mexico.mexico.city.jpg
In contrast to the
reality of Mexico’s
urban reality

13. Retrieved March 22, 2010
(Google Earth)

14. Google Earth
Paloma Negra
19°24'6.60"N, 98°57'55.10"W

16. Informal economy

18. Jewmalt Whiskey Reviews. Retrieved March 31, 2014:
http://www.jewmalt.com/category/kosher-spirits/mezcal/del-
maguey/
Interlude: geography of liquor
Agave:

19. In seach of the Blue Agave: Tequila and the
Heart of Mexico. Retrieved March 22, 2017:
http://www.ianchadwick.com/tequila/mezcal_
production.htm
Pulque:
http://www.ianchadwick.com/tequila/pulque.
htm

20. What is rum made from?
Aguardiente
Chicha
Pisco…..

21. North Carolina State U. Retrieved
March 24, 2010:
http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/
a.htm
Ethnic & cultural
diversityAztec
Maya
Inca

22. One interpretation of pre-Colombian Mexico
City: Tenochtitlan
(source unknown, from Pinterest)

23. North Carolina State U. Retrieved
March 24, 2010:
http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/
a.htm
Sugar plantations
&
slavery

24. Visit Mexico. Retrieved March 22, 2010: http://www.visitmexico.com/wb/Visitmexico/Visi_Home?show=regions
Teotihuacán, outside Mexico City

25. Shrine of Guadalupe

26. Los Niños Héroes

27. Strange Maps. April 4, 2008:
http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/

28. National University of Mexico

29. The Angel

30. Retrieved October 11, 2017: http://www.demographia.com/db-megacity.pdf