#Aztec names translation full

The legislative branch is bicameral: with a chamber of senators that has 128 seats and a chamber of deputies with 500 legislators. The president of Mexico is the head of state and government he is elected by popular vote for a period of 6 years (six-year term). Mexico has a continental area of 1'960,189 square kilometers, an exclusive economic zone of 3'149,190 and an extended continental shelf in the western polygon of the Gulf of Mexico of 10,570 square kilometers, giving a total of 5,120,679 square kilometers. Mexico is geographically located in the extreme south of North America where it is an integral part of one of the most important economic blocks in the world on the American continent, limited to the north by the United States, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast by Guatemala and Belize and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. It is made up of 32 federal entities, including Mexico City, which constitutes the capital of the country and the three union powers reside. A federal republic organised in three powers: Executive Power, Legislative Power and Judicial Power. The official legal name of the country is ‘United Mexican States’. The reason for such name would be that the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlan was founded on an islet on the current lake of Texcoco, previously known as the Moon Lake.

#Aztec names translation full

Therefore, the full translation and meaning of the word ‘Mexico’ would be ‘in the moon’s belly button’, or well ‘in the centre of the lake of the moon’.

The theory that is mostly accepted points out that it is formed from three Nahuatl words: ‘metztli’ meaning ‘moon’ ‘xictli’ translate as ‘belly button’ or ‘centre’ and the affix ‘-co’ indicating ‘place’. The etymology of the word ‘Mexico’ has been widely discussed as there is no definitive proof about its sole origin. The word Mexico comes from the Nahuatl language, which was spoken by the Mexicas, or also known as Aztecs.