Some rather interesting facts:
- Mexico has 9 of the 11 known ecosystems in the world.
- Mexico has more than 17 million of protected hectares.
- 11,000 archaeological sites, with about 500 of them explored. - First place in the world for reptile variety, with 56% endemic species.
- 2nd place in mammals after Indonesia.
- 4th in amphibious, with 62% endemism (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador).
- 4th in plants after Brazil, Colombia and China.
- The Chihuahuan desert is one of the most diverse and biological rich of the world, only comparable with the Namib-Karoo, the Kalahari or the Great Desert in Australia.
- The Chihuahuan desert is the only one of the 200 Global Ecoregions to be classified both in the terrestrial and the freshwater list.
- Mexico has the largest indigenous population in America, with over 10 million people, distributed in 62 ethnic groups, Nahuatls being the largest with 2.5 million y the smallest the Teco, with only 50 persons.
1.- India (Population: 1,065,070.607) 65 live languages
2.- México (Population: 102,026,691) 62 live languages
3.- China (Population: 1,298,847,624) 54 live languages
- Mexico has 24 places considered by Unesco as World Heritage Sites. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list 
1.. Italy: 39
2.- Spain: 38
3.- China: 30
Germany: 30
5.- France: 29
6.- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northen Ireland: 26
7.- India: 26
8.- Mexico: 24
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