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@Wake13

Жыл бұрын

Love ur work… but u forgot to mention that they hardly have any rivers

@elguapodelmonte215

Жыл бұрын

Funny you should mention the "Darien Gap" - years ago the Falsies (false jews) sent a group of "political RoundHeads" to the area around Darien Gap, called them as Scotsmen, although they were "English" (maybe side-show drone-clones of the falsies) WHY?? trying to establish "bad feelings & relations" between the Scottish and Spanish peoples. They failed.

@ericstevens8131

Жыл бұрын

You make too many mistakes. Of course, I will not subscribe.

@Skotch_Korean

Жыл бұрын

Why did the narrator's audio cut in and out; makes for a pretty frustrating listening experience. Interesting topic, though.

@TimothyEngstrom

Жыл бұрын

Everyone who like geography knows there is no land travel from Panama to Colombia. It's called the Darien Gap. Big error there in your video. Mexico conducts a large amount of shipping Manzanillo and many other ports: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_seaports_in_Mexico

Hurricanes are not really the reason for a lack of larger coastal cities. Miami, Tampa, New Orleans and Houston all prove that to be false. Mexico's real problem is it's overall geography with mountain ranges on each side with a central high platau in the middle. The other thing hurting Mexico is its lack of navigable rivers due precisely to this geography. Rivers have to drop very steep and fast making them unsuitable for navigation and a lot of coast cities are port cities located at river deltas like New Orleans. Hamburg, and Rotterdam. The coastal geography that was mentioned prevents ports from being built like those of Los Angeles which doesn't rely on a river but is more suitable for overland and rail access.

@Times_Ticking

Жыл бұрын

This is really the main reason. Climates can be mitigated with rivers and estuaries (Nile delta example). For some interesting reasons, Mexico lacks rivers. As for Los Angeles, it used to have a significant river (Los Angeles River). It was the primary source of fresh water. It was mitigated by the Corp of Engineers to control flooding, and now it's being restored (a little).

@rogeliovaldez6594

Жыл бұрын

What about the american Southwest, which basically the same geography

@Accentor100

Жыл бұрын

@@rogeliovaldez6594 It's attached to a larger country and connected to it through railroads and highways. The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach supply the southwest region of the country. The Southwestern US also has a lot of aggriculture.

@nickhall1115

Жыл бұрын

@@rogeliovaldez6594 SoCal has been pumping in water from a river that isn’t theirs (the Colorado River). Mexico doesn’t have that option.

@mitorresc

Жыл бұрын

Yes that also made Mexico a country with many isolated cultures over centuries. Because the country is full of mountains

So, Mexican export to South America goes through the Darien Gap? Imagine how much bigger it would be if there actually was a road there?

@jorgeluiscapiello414

Жыл бұрын

No way through Darien

@joeypatapas8840

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing! There are other major factual errors that I noticed. It’s very clear the person who did this video made a lot of assumptions and didn’t properly research the topic.

@markwest3485

Жыл бұрын

Yep, hard to believe they off load trucks onto ferry’s to bypass the gap than back onto trucks.

@joeypatapas8840

Жыл бұрын

@@markwest3485 major cargo transport doesn’t go through Central America but rather from ship (even from Mexico). The roads (even outside the Darian province) are of various, dubious, quality in much of Central America. I was just there in March; it took us 10 hours to travel less than 200 km! Roads don’t get you very far, very fast down there.

@rickriffel6246

Жыл бұрын

I think the Darien Gap can be developed, have roads paved and bridges built. But then, certain political and corporate entities have never made any agreement except to let it stay undeveloped.

Tijuana is a major coastal city. Honestly I think Matamoros should be bigger. Its a coastal city near the Texas boarder and has a port. I think Matamoros growth stopped because Reynosa, Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey has been better at getting factories and corporations to move there.

@Wallblue21

Жыл бұрын

tijuana doesnt have a port

@pongop

Жыл бұрын

Maquiladoras, free trade, WTO, and globalization

@impudentdomain

Жыл бұрын

since Nafta it was more economical to use the giant port at Houston and just ship goods to and from Mexico

@mexicanodecorazon1697

Жыл бұрын

Mexico sure has large coastal cities!

@nategz9875

Жыл бұрын

@@mexicanodecorazon1697 yeah but I think the mountains make it harder to travel to other places. They say if you flatten all the mountains in Mexico it would have more land than Asia.

I was born in Central Mexico and lived there until my late teens , I never traveled far away from even my state of Guanajuato and I've got the shock of my life when I went to Veracruz in March and that humidity and warm weather hit me. Later on, I moved to Texas and realized how good I had it in my hometown since life would be unbearable without air conditioning or building insulation in the east coast of the US. The higher altitude and dryer weather is the place to be if you're born south of the border.

As a Floridian I vehemently disagree with the assertion hurricanes play a large factor in terms of settlement, I mean you just have to look at Florida's population density demographics as evidence for that and we get slammed with more hurricanes as well as ones of greater strength due to the trade winds than Mexico does on average. Most of the ones that do end up hitting Mexico have already hit us or the various Caribbean islands first and lose a good bit of their strength, they may pick up some strength in the Gulf but its typically not enough to change their category by time they hit Mexico. I would say the topography of the coasts is of greater factor, due to a large lack of flat land to allow for easy construction especially on the Pacific side, given that Mexico is a very mountainous country in general it makes moving goods from the mountainous interior to the semi flatter coasts difficult to say the least, plus given that Mexico's largest trading partner is the US by multitudes of volume, it makes little sense to build a port to ship those goods when they can be more easily taken over the border via land. Evidence to that is history the largest coastal cities in the world were built and expanded upon because of commerce, despite many of them not being in the most ideal of locations (Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans etc.) but people persisted in building there because trade was so important. I'd argue if Mexico expanded its trade in greater volume to say the European market for example, you'd see a greater expansion and growth in say Veracruz to facilitate that influx of commerce, which by all projections is likely to happen as the market for Mexican manufactured goods is ever increasing, as the worlds current primary manufacturing hub of China is becoming increasingly more risky and hostile for those nations with large economies that currently import cheap manufactured goods from there. To which Mexico is seen as a better alternative due to its less hostile government and shorter less risky shipping routes due to its geographic location to those aforementioned large economic nations.

@HypnoticChronic1

Жыл бұрын

@@nickhall1115 Indeed however, I chose to focus on the points I could outright debunk given my location, knowledge of history and current geopolitics. Plus my comment was getting rather extensive as is and I did want people to actually read it, such as yourself rather than ignore it as a massive text wall.

@nickhall1115

Жыл бұрын

@@HypnoticChronic1 All good. This video has soo many holes and inaccuracies that it genuinely upset me (the thought of people actually listening to the buffoon that made the video). I am also from Florida (although the argument for settlement here is pre air conditioning/post air conditioning, and the railroad that Flagler built).

@platinumUser7

Жыл бұрын

Prety good point

@HypnoticChronic1

Жыл бұрын

@@nickhall1115 Regarding AC and the railroad, these are solid points as well and contributed heavily to Florida's rapid development and population boom however, my main point of contention with the video was the implication of hurricanes being a heavy contributing factor in lack of settlement interest. It would be the same as saying any natural disaster is a deterrent for settlement which both in present day and historically is a fallacy and Florida was a perfect example to use to solidify that point being able to draw on my own firsthand experience on the matter. People will settle anywhere if the reward outweighs the risk and that is more often than not attached to economic prospects, which is something else I pointed out as well regarding potentially higher Mexican trade with Europe causing a potential economic boom along the Gulf coast.

@lisatowe778

Жыл бұрын

@@HypnoticChronic1agree with your points, hurricanes didn’t deter my ancestors in Florida even before all the modernizations i enjoy now. I find it interesting that certain peoples seem to forge ahead regardless of what is in the way, and some don’t. I see great possibilities in the Mexican coastline, just as I see many when I’ve gone to Canada. I have studied a lot of governments and it always seems to be the factor that keeps visionary improvements from happening. Just my opinion of course

There is a HUGE MISTAKE in how we make export/import with Sout America: is not by land trough Guatemala and Central America, Is by ship... It's immposible to do it by land because the Darien Gap in Panama (a super dense rain forest area), that's te reason a Panamerican Road doesn't exist.

Tremendous country!. Rich history, culture, traditions, human capital and wonderful landscapes. Mexico has the largest number of world heritage sites recognized by UNESCO in the Americas!. Central Mexico probably has one of the best weathers on earth, that´s why population has concentrated in that area for centuries. Civilizations present for three millennia! Interesting vid!

@servandopereira3482

11 ай бұрын

Finally, a reasonable opinion

@al1665

11 ай бұрын

Don't forget that food.

So the fact that the 5th largest metropolitan area of Mexico is Tijuana, right on the California coastline, we are going to ignore that?

@MalikCarr

11 ай бұрын

Came here looking for this. In what universe is 2 million and some change not a "large city"? Mazatlan, Ensenada, Acapulco and Veracruz also aren't exactly little villages either. Perhaps a better title should have been "why do so many people live within 100 miles of Mexico City"?

@johnknapp952

11 ай бұрын

If not for San Diego, Tijuana would just be a small coastal town.

@trentEA

11 ай бұрын

Since Mexico became trendy lately I have found many videos of gringos or foreigners that just upload anything without even bothering to do a proper research of the place they visit or live.

@trentEA

11 ай бұрын

@@johnknapp952 True, but if it was not for Tijuana, San Diego would be straight up a super boring place.

@aphextwin5712

11 ай бұрын

Tijuana being one of the largest cities in Mexico is a relative recent phenomena. Wikipedia says it only had about 500 inhabitants in 1900 and 16’500 in 1940. Even in 1990, it was only in 11th place (by all appearances). Clearly trade and other exchanges with the United States has trumped climate over the last half century.

This is incomplete 😢 Missing: Acapulco. The Acapulco-Manila trade was huge! This affected the State of Colima. Mexicans there can trace Filipino ancestors there. The trade also led to Filipino influence throughout all the Spanish colonies in the Americas. Food is the obvious: rice, pineapples 🍍, papayas, bananas 🍌 , coconuts 🥥

@justdont2378

Жыл бұрын

The Philippines may have also had a influence in Latin clothing There's a theory that the Guayabera is based on the Barong Tagalog Shawls in The Americas and Spain is also because of The Philippines as well

@veyanrealty1

Жыл бұрын

ONLY RICE CAME FROM ASIA. BANANAS DROM AFRICA. PINEAPPLES & PAPAYAS ARE FROM THE AMERICA CONTINENT.-

@1370802

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking that as well. It was shown on the animated map at 4:24 but never mentioned.

@xwraiths

Жыл бұрын

In more recent times Lazaro Cardenas has also become a major pacific port and the city has grown rapidly

@jorgecuevas8843

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, Acapulco has always had a really strong connection with Asia.

1:23 Sâo Paulo (Brazil) is not on the coast. It's not far from the coast (some 30 km on a straight line; 50 km if you measure it to city centre), but it's not on the coast, and you have to climb up a mountain (Serra do Mar) to get from the coast to the city.

@ThiagoSouza-qh5bm

Жыл бұрын

Also no road transportation between Mexico and South America... 😅

@zimriel

Жыл бұрын

ehh same could be said of Houston. It is not on the coast but a ship-channel leads to the coast. For commerce-purpose, Houston is on the coast. So let us concede that Saint Paul in Brasil is on the coast

@GazilionPT

Жыл бұрын

@@zimriel No. You said it yourself: a ship channel connects Houston to the coast. Likewise, Antwerp is inland but it has an important seaport (even though ships must pass through Dutch territory to get to Antwerp). Nothing like that can be said about São Paulo. The 80 km-long road that connects the seaport of Santos to São Paulo must climb up the Serra do Mar, a very significative natural obstacle, even with a modern road. (Google for images to have an idea.) For that reason, the São Paulo Metro Area does not reach the coast, the Serra do Mar acts as a barrier. In fact, the southern part of what is legally still the city of São Paulo, already on the slopes of Serra do Mar, is so rough and underpopulated that in fact includes indigenous villages, e.g. Krukutu.

@zimriel

Жыл бұрын

@@GazilionPT thank you for explaining this. i'm obviously not from Brazil so simply assumed that a near-coastal major city likely has a channel.

@andregotha9257

Жыл бұрын

@@zimriel In fact there is not, near the southeast coast there is a great wall, the Serra do Mar which reaches almost 3,000 meters, there are complexes engineering works linking the parts of the plateau beyond these mountain range and the coast kzread.info/dash/bejne/pquupbymdrSfm84.html

En la escuela me dijerin que el México independiente era una nación vulnerable a los ataques y si su capital o ciudad más importante estaba en un puerto seria fácilmente invadida. Al poner la ciudad capital lo mas alejada de las costas y fronteras le daba tiempo de organizar sus defensas. Otro dato: La CDMX es la unica magapolis y capital que no esta junto al mar o un río.

@grod805

Жыл бұрын

La ciudad de Mexico no esta junto al mar o rio

@xochitlpauli5622

Жыл бұрын

​@@grod805 junto (o mas bien encima) de uno si, el de los remedios, que no es (era) muy grande

@alejandrocorteshernandez851

Жыл бұрын

@@grod805 exacto, no me di cuenta que no puse el no pero es lo que quise decir

@Danisiah1

Жыл бұрын

estuvo en un lago, de todos modos hoy día no

@alejandrocorteshernandez851

Жыл бұрын

@@Danisiah1 si pero no es el dato que la hace distintiva

Hurricanes is one reason. Progreso with its very long pier that ends in what basically is an artificial island, is a major seaport (though it needs to be dredged again, which is not easy since the bottom is hard rock) up to a draft of 41FT but the city is not in Progreso but in Merida, 30KM inland and safe from a storm surge. Merida is already past one million inhabitants and it has always been dependent on its historical seaports: Campeche, Sisal and since 1872 Progreso.

@georgetsokanis3542

Жыл бұрын

Same in the US east coast. Except for Miami (disaster waiting to happen) most major cities are inland.

@zimriel

Жыл бұрын

Again I'm thinking of Houston, not "on" the coast but very close to it. And we get hurricanes too. Maybe not as bad as Galveston but pretty bad.

@roverworld7218

Жыл бұрын

@zimriel The problem with Houston is the flooding a storm can bring and apart from being built on top of a swamp and hence the city is sinking (kind of a similar situation to Mexico City) many segments of the metro area are prone to storm surge.

@steffanyschwartz7801

11 ай бұрын

@@georgetsokanis3542what about NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Virginia Beach, Savannah, Jacksonville, and Boston? All of those are relatively close to the sea if not right no it

One of the most important reasons before 1900 was the extreme unhealthiness of the coastal lowlands; yellow fever and malaria. Acapulco was deserted except when the Manila Galleon was expected.

@georgen9755

Жыл бұрын

Most coastal regions people suffer from yellow fever and malaria ... Trade has improved in the interior regions and not much development along the Mexico coast . You have such a Mexican accent that so far I haven't this accent so very new to hear ......Spain has developed as much of the resources flow in to Spain for various reasons .......the economy is high and they know all the sea routes .......I guess .....pirates operated in these temperate zones and only heaven knows why Mexicans are left alone ...... Some geographical regions influence hurricanes ,... earthquakes relief funds has made Spain more advanced ....,

Acapulco, Tijuana, Puerto Vallarta, Veracruz, La Paz, Mazatlan, Cabo San Lucas, Cancun, there is plenty of large cities in the Mexican coast, they are more designed for tourism than for commerce though, and since it’s biggest trading partner is literally across a large land border there was less need to go out to seas.

@Snarfie

11 ай бұрын

By large cities I'm very positive they mean a city that's over 1 million people and pretty sure from the ones you mention only Tijuana and maybe Acapulco could be considered that, but again it's kind of arbitrary because I don't think we have more than 10 cities in Mexico (including metropolitan areas) with a population over 1 million

@hitmonRay

11 ай бұрын

Those are all tiny cities

@BimmerBros

11 ай бұрын

@@hitmonRay Tijuana is literally the second largest city in Mexico 2.2 million population, Cancun 1 million pop, Veracruz, and Acapulco 600k, Mazatlan 400k, and the two “smallest” cities listed Cabo San Lucas and La Paz have 200k each and are only 98 miles away from each other. These numbers are not even including the metro areas which balloon those populations by 200k on average.

@hitmonRay

11 ай бұрын

@BimmerBros that's small dude. You must be from rural America or something. Even NYC is small by world city standards

@BimmerBros

11 ай бұрын

@@hitmonRay We are not talking mega cities here 200k pop is enough to operate merchant ports, Mexico just has not had the need, why bother with all that expensive infrastructure when you have some of the best beaches in the world

In general, this is sort of correct. But it has many mistakes: At 03:24 it sh ows Atlantic Hurricanes from the Gulf of Mexico crossing the deserts and the Sierra Madra into California. That doesn't happen. A hurricane can not cross that terrain. It also fails to show the eastern Pacific Hurricanes that hit the Baja Peninsula the the mainland Pacific Coast (the Mexican Riveria). At 07:00 it claims that Mexico trades with South American via the land route of Guatamala. That is not possible. There is no road or rail that connects South American and Central America. The Darian Gap in Panama is blocking through roads At 07:30 it claims that Tijuana is a internationally known popular tourist destination. No it isn't.

@sbclaridge

Жыл бұрын

Eastern Pacific hurricanes can make it into the Sea of Cortez/Gulf of California, which is significantly warmer than the Pacific at those latitudes; the summer and autumn water temperatures in the Gulf of California are usually high enough to sustain hurricanes. In the Pacific, the cold California Current protects the northern Baja Peninsula and the state of California from tropical storms, but south of the southern end of the Gulf of California, the Pacific Ocean is warm.

@yankinwaoz

Жыл бұрын

@@sbclaridge In my whole life I've never seen an Atlantic hurricane reach the Sea of Cortez. Perhaps it has happened. If you know of one, please us know here. Yes, I've seen heaps of Pacific hurricanes hit Baja California Sur and head into the Sea of Cortez. They even impact the weather up here in San Diego where I live. It gets all hot and muggy up here when it happens.

@zimriel

Жыл бұрын

I haven't been to Tijuana but I have been to Matamoros. Tourists do go to Matamoros. Maybe not international but Texans go there all the time. Likewise I understand that Californians, Nevadans, and Arizonans go to Tijuana.

@sbclaridge

Жыл бұрын

@@yankinwaoz obviously I was referring to Pacific hurricanes. I can't name any examples off the top of my head, but I do know of some situations where Atlantic hurricanes in the Caribbean have disintegrated as they cross Central America, and then reorganize into a Pacific hurricane as they emerge into the Pacific Ocean, but those are the only situations even remotely close to that.

@yankinwaoz

Жыл бұрын

@@zimriel Not really. Some do. But it takes so long to come back.

Tijuana is not such a tourist hot spot but an extremely busy border crossing. Many people cross to work in San Diego or for medical treatment in Tijuana.

@Joshua-fi4ji

Жыл бұрын

The video got a lot wrong, but I think Tijuana is an exception. It's grown due to its proximity to the US and its market. It wouldn't be so big otherwise as it's not the most hospitable environment for a city.

@guizot2010

Жыл бұрын

Many people (especially children) live in Tijuana but go to school in San Diego. Probably more cross into San Diego just to shop. Economically it's like one metropolitan area. It's the busiest border crossing in the world.

You missed a very crucial reason why Mexico's cities and most of her population are located in the central highlands--the fertility of the soil there. The region from Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city, through Mexico City to Puebla is endowed with deep, fertile volcanic soils. These soils, in turn, come from the 40 or so high volcanoes that define this region. That's very different from the coastal regions of Mexico, where the soils are thin and not as productive. That's a prime reason why Maya civilization collapsed in the Yucatan in the 900s AD--the very thin soils of this flat coastal peninsula were exhausted. Thus for 2,000 years, the great empires of Mesoamerica arose in the central highlands, first with Teotihuacan, then the Toltecs and finally the Aztecs, with their three great capital cities becoming the largest settlements in the New World before 1492. All of this was possible because whoever controlled the central highlands, controlled the most agriculturally productive regions of Mesoamerica. This was not lost on the Spanish, who also settled in the most fertile region of Mexico once they finished their conquest. It wasn't only precious metals that kept the Spanish in the central highlands--it was food.

Just a (not so!) little correction: The land connection from Mexico to South America is blocked by the Darien Gap in southern Panama and northern Colombia. All commerce (at least the legitimate sort) has to go by boat around it or by air. Trekking the Gap is VERY dangerous.

Mexico does have at least one major coastal city, Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico. It's the oldest and the largest seaport in the country. They move over 16 million tons of cargo annually, including 800,000 Mexico built cars.

@joemaloney1019

Жыл бұрын

Also Alcapulco on the west coast.

@davidortega357

Жыл бұрын

What about Acapulco a coastal city with beautiful beaches , Mazatlan

@smbdythatuused2know

6 ай бұрын

Not anymore...

I'm Mexican and grew up wondering about this, but something important to consider is the centralization of the economy and power in Mexico, with all major secretaries, government institutions, private companies and federal investment being established in the capital or close to it, the only other developed cities are Monterrey, Guadalajara, and Querétaro, while touristic destinations like Cancún and Acapulco being taken by drug cartels and politicians who milked them, it is difficult for cities to grow and develop.

@servandopereira3482

11 ай бұрын

And Monterrey because is close to the boarder and Queretaro because is between Monterrey and Mexico City, so the exports made this cities

Tijuana Metro Area has more than 2 million people, it is a coastal city.

@marioperez-sb9jz

Жыл бұрын

dijo LARGE CITIES, osea GRANDES GIGANTES, como Tokyo, Nueva York. sao paolo, que son masivas, no compares tijuana jajajaj no cuenta como una super ciudad

@jamesparson

Жыл бұрын

With no harbor. And almost no railroads. One has to go to Ensenada for that.

@ronin6199

Жыл бұрын

France, Germany, and Spain have no mega cities on their coast. Mexico is not unique in this regard. 2 million people is more than enough. Have you seen rios favelas or hong kongs congestion? Who wants that?

@oldman4353

Жыл бұрын

@@ronin6199 Marseille in France, Barcelona in Spain and although Hamburg is inland it is on a tidal river which gives it access to the sea.

@ronin6199

Жыл бұрын

​​​​​@@oldman4353 Acapulco has 1 million inhabitants. Tijuana 2 million inhabitants. Veracruz 900,000. Marseille has 800,000 inhabitants. Berlin is still inland and not anywhere near the coast. The marks of Brandenburg are surrounded by sandy forests. Barcelona has 1.6 million. How does Mexico not have large population centers on the coast? This video is nonsense.

Great video As 2 Canadians 🇨🇦 that now call Mexico 🇲🇽 home we are blessed to be in such a rich beautiful country. ❤

@geopolipedia2956

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the appreciation. Do subscribe for more such content

One minor objection I have to this video is that Tijuana with its neighbors Rosarito and Ensenada to the south, together have around 3 million people. Not the biggest city in the world, but relatively large enough to count as a large city, at least compared to city sizes of Europe and the Americas.

@servandopereira3482

11 ай бұрын

I mean Ensenada is way too far

@annee.p9885

11 ай бұрын

​@@servandopereira3482It's only like a two hour drive to get from Tijuana to Ensenada, so geographically they aren't THAT far from each other

@servandopereira3482

11 ай бұрын

@@annee.p9885 I live in Tijuana, thanks for the useless info, a city 2 hours away can’t be considered the same city or conurbation, specially if they’re not even connected by neighborhoods is not a 2 hour traffic is 2 hours because is 200 km

@annee.p9885

11 ай бұрын

@@servandopereira3482 well they aren't the same city by any means but you can say they're connected to each other since other than Rosarito, the next big city to Tijuana is Ensenada (also the distance between Ensenada and Tijuana is 100 km not 200 km)

@servandopereira3482

11 ай бұрын

@@annee.p9885 still they’re not the same city, if not Imagine Mexico City, Puebla, Queretaro, Cuernavaca, Pachuca , Toluca, and all the other small cities

Tijuana is a very large city with over 3 million people.

@ornitoriker890

Жыл бұрын

Thats the whole metropolitan area, the city itself has 2M ppl and Tijuana municipality is also the most populated in all of mexico.

Port cities are most definitely NOT obsolete. Most of the goods that cross oceans are transported by ship.

1:21 São Paulo is not a coastal city. It is relatively close to the sea (about 60 km) but it is separated by a high and forested mountain range.

Es parcialmente cierto. Las grandes ciudades se encuentran en el interior con un clima templado. Auqnue en las costas existen ciudades medianas con buenos puertos. en el Oceano Pacífico, Mazatlán, Acapulco, Manzanillo, Lázaro Cárdenas. En el Golfo de México, Tampico, Veracruz, Coatzacoalcos. En el Mar Caribe en efecto don resorts y ciudades más pequeñas.

The largest cities in many Latin American countries are actually inland or in the highlands. Sao Paolo, Bogotá, Caracas, Santiago, Tegucigalpa, Managua, San Salvador, San José are the largest cities in their respective countries and they're not coastal. I don't know but, it seems like Madrid Spain which is actually not a coastal city. There are probably cultural and historical reasons for that.

@seanthe100

Жыл бұрын

That's because the geography sucks overall in Latin America. Humans would never willing habitate in mass in the mountains unless there wasn't a better choice.

Matamoros, Tampico-Altamira, Veracruz, merida, Acapulco, coastal cities (or close to the coast) that are around 1million or larger

@An-kw3ec

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, people prefer inland forested areas but there are lots of nice coastal cities. Matamoros climate is as good as Guadalajara's. Rosarito in baja California is temperate and coastal just like San Diego.

@Yha1000itz

Жыл бұрын

@@An-kw3ec Matamoros have harsh weather. xD

Saying that port cities in the modern world are obsolete is basically ignoring that 90% of global trade still takes place by sea. Sure airplanes are good at moving people, but thats not really what drives economic development

I love how you have multiple videos featuring Puerto Vallarta but never mention it. I had a chuckle.

@Elprianistacagado

Жыл бұрын

Because pv is a gay retired town 😂😂😂😂😂

What happened to Vera Cruz, Tampico , Acapulco, Mazatlan, Puerto Valarta . They are all ,along with other cities , quiet large and very significant .

@AxolotlAndy

Жыл бұрын

Not big enough to be classified as an actual large city, we're talking about something like in Southeast Asia or the US.

@davidhenningson4782

Жыл бұрын

​@@AxolotlAndy I suppose if your threshold is 5 million and over. Still Veracruz with a metro pop of 955,000... isn't insignificant. I wouldn't call it a small city (it's grown, and is still growing, over the 4 times I've traveled there in the last 15 years.)

The map at 1:21 shows São Paulo as being one of those major coastal cities, but that’s a mistake unless someone decided to move it to the Atlantic?

@pedromendesrbd

Жыл бұрын

it's still very close to the coast, that's the point. to this day all brazilian coastal states have their capitals by the coast or very close to it, except for piauí

@rlk3490

Жыл бұрын

The port city of Santos is considered as being part of the Sao Paulo urban area.

@mrcarioca8046

Жыл бұрын

​@@rlk3490 Santos is close but not the same city, following its logic Rio and São Paulo are the same city because they are close

@rlk3490

Жыл бұрын

Im not saying that, I know they are different cities on their own. But what I mean is that Baixada Santista, which has Santos as it´s main city, is part of the greater Sao Paulo metropolitan area, a region of about 35 million people.

@odiseoish

Жыл бұрын

I don’t know, I would have picked Rio and shown London on this map which is much closer to the coast and has direct sea access, and what about Istanbul? I don’t know, it’s kinda missing really important data, but maybe it’s just me being picky.

Tampico, Veracruz, Cancún, Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, Ensenada, Mazatlan, Salina Cruz. Do u even México?

It’s amazing how many points he got wrong 😂

@donarmstrong2182

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it's weak, major errors, not small ones.

@MrTotalluck

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Which ones would you care to point out?

@anthonylemkendorf3114

Жыл бұрын

@@MrTotalluck do your own homework

@MrTotalluck

Жыл бұрын

@@anthonylemkendorf3114 how would It be a Homework when theres none to do, genius? 😜😜😜😜

@yumyum7196

Жыл бұрын

​@@MrTotalluck some I noticed were: Ports being irrelevant: yes, most trade between Mexico and US is through land entry points but ports are still hugely important and the Mexican govt has made significant investments in this area. Cost wise, it's a much cheaper transportation system not to mention some commodities can only be transferred this way. Another one: he said that trade with the South happens through central America. There is no road connecting central American and South America because it would be extremely difficult and damaging to build.

Good video, with a lot of inaccuracies, but the core idea is good.

What about Acapulco and Cankun? Are they not large cities on a coast? They are resort towns that have been popular with American vacationers.

@rlk3490

Жыл бұрын

Acapulco was vital on the spanish trade routes between continental Spain and the Philippines/Asia region. It and Veracruz, with Mexico City as an administrative city and mining regions as interior resources powerhouses, were the main reasons the New Spain region was so prosperous and could finance more and more expeditions to eventually own most of the Americas.

@rickriffel6246

Жыл бұрын

@@rlk3490 Right. So why ask "Why doesn't Mexico have large coastal cities"? It has at least one.

@TheJosman

Жыл бұрын

​@@rickriffel6246 Out of Mexico's top 20 largest metropolitan areas, only two (Tijuana and Veracruz) are coastal cities.

@mexicanodecorazon1697

Жыл бұрын

Mexico sure has large coastal cities! Veracruz, Mazatlan etc etc are not small!

@TheJosman

Жыл бұрын

@@mexicanodecorazon1697 They aren't huge. Of course Mexico has coastal cities, but over 80% of Mexicans live inland. That's a fact.

The Spanish colonization preferred to build cities inland, while the Portuguese preferred the coast. Many of the most important colonial cities in Brazil are at the coast, except for São Paulo and Curitiba (São Paulo is not a coastal city like said in the video). Even other Portuguese colonies are like that, like Macau in China or Goa in India. Meanwhile, the spanish cities are commonly inland like Mexico City, Caracas, Santiago, Bogotá, Medellin, Quito, San Jose... One noticeable exception is Buenos Aires, but not Montevideo, since Montevideo was founded by the Portuguese. This reflects the way Spain and Portugal are built. Spain has its capital in the center of the country, important affairs were also inland, like the Casa de Contratación in Seville. On the other side is Portugal, a country with coastal important cities like Lisbon and Porto, while the country side is rather empty. The name of the country also reflects that, it means Port of Cale (Portus Cale - Portugale - Portugal)

Great overview. Thanks!

I also wonder why. Here in the Philippines, most of the major cities are along the coasts: Manila, Cebu, Davao, Bacolod, Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro, Naga, all of these cities are located along our coasts. There are few major inland cities in the Philippines, such as Antipolo and Baguio. I wonder why Mexico has a different situation.

@jr3753

Жыл бұрын

That’s how Mexicos population has always been distributed for thousands of years

@juanmonge7418

Жыл бұрын

The Philippines are islands. The interior is jungle- my uninformed opinion.

@josephg.3771

Жыл бұрын

These cities are located at a crux between the coast and river

@FG-bu3jp

Жыл бұрын

Does the philipinres have highlands?

I think they do, relatively speaking. Places like Tijuana, Mazatlan, Acupulco, Puerto Vallarta and Cancun. It's just that Mexico city is so huge that it overshadows all of them.

If Tijuana, who's city limits touch the ocean, is not a coastal city then Los Angeles and Houston are not either.

Wow. Such a great video. I am sure that this will become a very big and popular chanel :)))

No major rivers

@jamescoulson7729

Жыл бұрын

Neither does coastal Peru but they built one of the biggest cities in the world on the coast, also rio grand is pretty major

@rlk3490

Жыл бұрын

@@jamescoulson7729 Mexico City is actually near major rivers, as the city itself is a basin, built on what used to be a lake.

What about the port of Veracruz? that´s a big city. But i wish we had more big cities like LA or Miami that have similar weather conditions

@TheJosman

Жыл бұрын

Not really, Veracruz is mid-size for Mexican standards. Even landlocked cities in the middle of a desert like Torreón have a larger population than Veracruz does, which is a shame.

@christineperez7562

Жыл бұрын

No because it is stupid to build large cities on coastal areas. This is year the land is sinking. To many hurricanes.

@solounwapodemuchos

Жыл бұрын

Veracruz-boca del rio-medellin conurbation should be counted as a single city nowadays tbh

@davidhenningson4782

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheJosman still almost a million people for the metro area... and growing.

@davidhenningson4782

Жыл бұрын

​@@solounwapodemuchos agreed. Can't really tell where one city ends and the other starts. Was there in the spring, had a great time in both places.😊

Excellent content. Thank You!

I don't know if this is still the case, but I remember that a few years ago (2000s, early 2010s), you could hear this fact that Mexico's main port of entry for cargo was *Houston.* This was (or still is) because if you wanted to ship cargo to Mexico (let's say) from Europe, a reasonable move for logistics was to send it Houston (which has more processing capacity and friendlier customs) and then by highway to Mexico, instead of waiting until Veracruz was free.

The period between June and November isn't known as hurricane season just in Mexico. It's known as hurricane season for most of the northern hemisphere.

Fascinating! Thank you. (where is that mountain at 03:48? Wow!)

I would say Mexican trade with South America travels mostly through the airwaves and airlines, since it's mostly culture, services and people.

If you look at the map of food production areas and overlay that with the population map then it makes sense plus if you're more inland the mountain ranges protect the major storms

@brandonvasser5902

Жыл бұрын

Major storms? We’re in 2023 not 1800

@oscarwalton1188

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonvasser5902 there's always been storms

@snakeplissken1933

Жыл бұрын

@@brandonvasser5902 What is the difference? People are still helpless agains tropical storms. Coastal cities must invest billions to repair infrastructural damage over and over again.

@oscarwalton1188

Жыл бұрын

@snake plissken wich is why most of the Mexican population lives inland the coastel towns exist primarily originally because of fishing it's a only a in the last 3 or so decades it's become a tourist destination with the pros and cons that come with that

Hurricane season also occurs on the East coast of the US, yet there are large cities there. I think the terrain has more to do with it.

@billsanders5067

Жыл бұрын

I thank it could be just because Mexicans have more common sense than gringos do.

This is a very well produced video. I almost made it to the end. Just keep in mind that there’s very little truth in it. To say people haven’t built cities on the coast because of the weather is probably the most fake thing you are likely to hear today.

The reazon why Mexico don’t have large costal cities is bicose, the costal cities was bulnerables for ataking bay boat from other countries, at the colonial times cities like Veracruz and Campeche was constatly ataked by pirates and corsaries, and afeter Mexico independice many costal mexican towns was ataked by United States and Francés forces on wars with those countries, so the mexican goberment prohited the mexican costal towns bicame capital of the states, and at that time many people prefiered satabished at inland towns was more secure, but the things are changing now, the mexican costal cities are geting more populated, the weather its not a relly isue, Tijuana and Ensenada has the same weather as San Diego an Los Angeles California, Tampico has the same weather as Miami Florida, Veracruz has the same weather as La Habana Cuba, Matamoros has the same weather as Corpus Christi Texas, Can Cun has the weather of Manila Philippines.

Can you do a videeo about Why do almost all of Michigan's population lives in the lower peninsula?

Cancun is growing so fast I think it could be in the future the major Coastal City In Mexico

@Konusu

Жыл бұрын

Cancun has almost 900k people living there. I would definitely say it's a major city :)

Air travel? Seriously? That's so expensive its effects are negligible.

@danjberg

Жыл бұрын

And Mexico is not known for its efficient and modern airports.

@danmur2797

Жыл бұрын

@Dan Berg I would say most are rather efficient since they are smaller volume, except for the large ones. All 32 of Mexico's states have at least one international airport. And many Mexican cities have direct international flights--even second and third tier cities unlike most emerging countries which default to its capital city airport. Even developed countries like France are centralizing their airport operations further to encourage rail transportation. Mexico overall for an emerging country has great air connectivity--and it is needed given the terrain (3 major mountain ranges). They are working on developing intercity passenger rail lines, including proposed high speed rail, but most are either in planning stages or under construction.

@1370802

Жыл бұрын

For travel it is. People who travel by sea nowadays go on cruise ships. Their purpose is to provide a pleasant experience, tour some nice port towns, and then drop you off back where you started. People who want to get from one place to another use planes. Nobody takes a business trip on a cruise ship.

@impudentdomain

Жыл бұрын

@@1370802 that is true but the majority of the economics of transportation is goods transport. Mexico would have larger ports for goods transportation if it didn't do most of its trade with the USA. If half of that trade went to Europe or Asia then there would be much larger ports.

@1370802

Жыл бұрын

@@impudentdomain True. I agree with you there

Hi, nice video, but there are few inaccuracies. First and foremost, no, trade South America does NOT go via land routes. As someone else mentioned, there is the Darien strait that impedes any passage. Second, the country does have major ports (Veracruz, Acapulco, Manzanillo, Tampico, etc.) . They just don't happen to be large cities but medium ones. Second inaccuracy: the Aztecs represented only a small fraction of the population of pre-colonial Mexico. They were in power in the center, but countless other groups (Mayans, Zapotecs, Mixtecs, Chichimecas, and even other Nahuatl speakers such as the Tlaxcalans) made up the majority of the population. Prehispanic Mexico is much more than just the Aztecs or the Mayans.

@Joshua-fi4ji

Жыл бұрын

A fair bit of trade goes south along trade routes, but not through the Darian Gap. Once it goes so far south, it'll be loaded onto a ships for the rest of the journey (or it'll go via one of Mexicos ports). The video is pretty bad and contains way too many errors.

Veracruz, Acapulco, Cancun, and Tijuana are all major coastal cities, judging by their populations and the populations of their metro areas. Acapulco's metro has just over a million people, and Tijuana's metro area has a little over two million. Veracruz's metro has around 940,000 people, and Cancun (city proper) has around 900,000 people. They might not compare to large inland metropolitan cities like Mexico City, Guadalajara, and Monterrey, but the aforementioned four coastal cities would be major cities by any definition. Tijuana is the largest, and it is far removed from the hurricane zone, protected by the cold waters of the northern Pacific off of the Baja peninsula (aside from the rare storm that manages to exploit the warmer Gulf of California). The Pacific hurricane zone extends south from the southernmost end of the Baja peninsula. I don't think hurricanes are the reason for the relative lack of major coastal cities, but rather climate.

Fascinating stuff. Do you have a video on the city of Mérida?

I would adjust your Microphone’s Noise Gate and Compression settings, seem too high. Good video.

Tijuana is close to 2 million.

Acapulco was some what overlooked. It was the port that interfaced with shipments from the Philippines.

Also Mexico does not have large natural ports like the famous world ports, London, Venice, San Fran., NYC, Tokyo, etc. and until recently their economy wasn't generating much trade.

Tijuana and Acapulco are over a million people so they are very large areas. Population has killed the charm of Acapulco and turned it into a crowed gang haven and Tijuana is a messy city with too many depressed colonias. The problem with Mexico is that the cities become cesspools as they grow, because there's never a plan for graceful growth in Mex.

Second thing: Mérida, a booming midsize city, is a mere 45 km from the port of Progreso. It almost qualifies as a coastal city.

@AugustoFeyh

Жыл бұрын

And São Paulo (Brazil) is 80 km away from the coast, but he uses it as a example of a big city that at the coast.

Tijuana is the second largest city on the Pacific Coast of North America

What about Veracruz & Acapulco? They're large & coastal...

Shipping goods by aircraft is very expensive and inefficient. Ships are still the best way to economically ship goods. I bought castings from South Korea in the early 2000's. 30 days at sea and 10-14 days on train to Southern Ontario. The supplier kept 30 days stock in Korea and I kept 30 days stock in Ontario. If I were to use aircraft, a $5.00 casting would turn into $15.00 one.

@davidhenningson4782

Жыл бұрын

got the nail on the head there. Always cheaper to buy in bulk by land or sea than by air. Air freight is just faster for long distances. Most stuff goes by ship and rail... or by truck overland. Couriers send air freight to meet their 9 ams (a premium service)... rest goes by turnpike and 18 wheelers.

Thanks for answering a question that has been on my mind for years. As a mexican, I could assume some things but didn't really know why we didn't have big cities on the coasts or why no big cities are built around or by a large body of water (like we can see when traveling anywhere abroad where a lot of the city's activity is based on water).

@geopolipedia2956

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the appreciation. Do subscribe for more such content

Buena información y bien narrado.

And that's what I love about Baja California, it's wide-open spaces great for solo camping and hiking or simply enjoying a isolated beach all to myself.

Out of the 20 largest metropolitan cities, only 1 its located near the ocean, being Tijuana, and Tijuana doesnt hace a major port actually, in fact, the 2 major ports on mexico, none surpass the milion of Population, the port of Veracruz on the gulf of mexico has a Population of 930,000 people and the port of Manzanillo on the pacific has a Population of 159,000

Very informative, please don't take this the wrong way, but can you please look into the settings of your microphone, the first couple milliseconds of every word and the ends are cut off, almost like the threshold is set super high so each word fades in and out

@geopolipedia2956

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for pointing that out. Do subscribe for more such content

São Paulo isn't on the coast. It's not far away, but you have to go up over the coastal mountain range to get to it from Santos, the port of São Paulo.

Even though geographically North and South America are connected by land, on the edge between Panama and Colombia there is no road linking the two countries and continents therefor you cannot drive from one continent to the other.

There is a lot of seaport trade taking place in Mexico. Tijuana, Manzanillo, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco, Veracruz, Tampico, Tuxpan... a lot of trade within even the Americas happens this way.

São Paulo isn't on coastline💀 It's close, but isn't on coast

Mexico is where the two worlds met.

Fun fact: A LOT of us inland Mexicans struggle when we go to sea-level. We're so used to 1600-3000 metres above sea level that you can actually tell a difference when breathing.

I enjoyed this video but I would also be curious to know how much coastal land is actually suitable for harbors. That's a big reason why Africa, for example, has very few port cities.

Another huge factor is that the Spanish discouraged the development of trade in their empire, focusing instead on extracting resources directly from their colonies to Spain, they even banned different colonies from trading with each other. The British, on the other hand, encouraged trade between their colonies, which led to many trading hubs and cities on the coast and navigable rivers. It really doesnt have that much to do with geography

10/10 for graphic animation of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico hitting SoCal.

Didn’t realize Tijuana, Veracruz, Acapulco, Ensenada, & Mazatlán weren’t big coastal cities

Canada has one major city on a coastline and we really don't worry about the floods taking Vancouver. So this video makes... never mind. You keep doing you.

You've drawn a land route to South America, but there is no such route.

What flag is the soldier holding @ 04:51 ?? Anyone know??

I feel like this video misrepresents the situation in Mexico. They are taking the size of coastal cities in comparison to Mexico City, which is in itself enormous. But there are a number of big-ish cities on the coast: Veracruz, Tijuana, Mazatlán, Tampico, Ensenada. These are nowhere near as large as the capital, but that's because it is the largest city on the continent. Meanwhile, all of the coastal cities I mentioned break half a million people in their metro area, and there are still other important ports that, despite not being big cities, are big on shipping, like Manzanillo, Coatzacoalcos, and Salina Cruz. Mexico is not as far from the sea as this video makes it seem.

You forgot to mention: 1. Lack of navigable rivers. 2. Darian Gap.

40% isn't much. Over 85% of Canada's population is within 100 km of the US border. Also, there aren't big cities on the coasts there either, except Vancouver.

There’s major cities in the Shore Tampico and Veracruz are the major cities in the respective states

How do they execute land passage to South America ?

"Cabo" isn't a thing - there is no city named Cabo. Instead, it's two resort towns (Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo) which together form the municipality of Los Cabos.

São Paulo is not placed in a coast line though it takes like 1 hour to get to the ocean. Rio de Janeiro is placed in the coast line, as well as many other large cities in Brazil

This is simple. It’s economic opportunity. Infrastructure in Mexico, especially highways, in Mexico are very bad. So commuting is not an option. People simply gravitate towards where there are jobs and economic activity, around Mexico City

@ornitoriker890

Жыл бұрын

Highways in mexico are good in general but roads aren't

There is definitely an inconsistency at 7:00 , look up the Darien Gap.

U dont think 2 million plus population in Acapulco is big?

@ronin6199

Жыл бұрын

I was born in Acapulco. I have traveled to Asia Europe and all over the U.S. Acapulco is big, maybe not as big as some other cities around the world, but it is big enough. It's a large city period. This guy is talking out of his anus. It's not that I'm overly sensitive about it, but it's just not true. That's what I can't stand about this nonsense.

Also no large year-round river systems that empty into natural ports.

Mexico DOES have THREE major coastal cities, they are called; "San Diego", "Los Angeles" and "San Francisco". Mexicans are in the process of repatriating them as well as major chunks of the areas that were stolen in the early 1800s by the American Empire.

@jrt2792

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention that those cities have large prominent Mexican populations.

@1wun1

Жыл бұрын

No way Jose 🤓

@charlesroberts3650

Жыл бұрын

​@Dark Mattter Way 🤓

@rebeltvr6046

Жыл бұрын

That's why California has become a shitshow.

@ornitoriker890

Жыл бұрын

Tijuana ._.