241. The Baja 1000 is an off-road race that takes place on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula in November. The winning time was 24:15:50 in 2007 and 14:14:25 in 2011

242. Why is La Casa Rosada pink? Legend has it that President Domingo Sarmiento in 1898 hoped to defuse political tensions by combining the red and white colors of the country’s opposing political parties.

243. The chac mool is a sculptural figure seated on the ground with its upper back raised, the head is turned, the legs are drawn up, elbows rest on the ground, and its hands hold a vessel or plate on the stomach where offerings may have been placed or human sacrifices carried out.

244. A cenote is a deep natural pit, or sinkhole resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. These are found abundantly in the Yucatán.

245. Sacsayhuamán is a walled complex on the northern outskirts of the city of Cuzco, Perú.

246. Sacsayhuamán is like other Inca constructions made of large polished dry-stone walls, each boulder carefully cut to fit together tightly without mortar

247 Cuzco, Perú was the former capital of the Inca Empire

248. The structure of Sacsayhuamán is supposed to resemble the head of a giant puma.

249. As many as 100 Native American languages are still spoken in Mexico

250. the currency of Mexico is known as the Peso