Why "Nobody" Lives In This HUGE Area Of Mexico

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Mexico is a huge country. With nearly 130 million people, 22 million of which live in Mexico City, the country ranks 10th in terms of population. Despite the vast amount of people, however, there exists a large swath in the middle that has very few people relative to this size. And this area effectively cuts the country in half, from the the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean. Here's why "nobody" lives in Mexico's Empty Belt.
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@SaadAlisArt 2 ай бұрын

Short answer: desert, no rivers and greenery and more mountainous terrain.

@austinhernandez2716 2 ай бұрын

But right below it is some huge mountains covered in "greenery" with a river. I've been there before. My cousins work there. It's called Tolantongo.

@santiago6296 2 ай бұрын

And crime

@TheDerrickseidler 2 ай бұрын

@santiago6296 no worse than Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago or Atlanta....

@santiago6296 2 ай бұрын

@@TheDerrickseidler do those places have drug cartels?

@farmerpiney Ай бұрын

Shorter Answer: Geography... by Geoff.

@austinhernandez2716 2 ай бұрын

My family lives close to there! In the state of Hidalgo. It's an indigenous town, the population exploded to 1000 recently. Yeah, it's that small. It's in the middle of a desert valley. It's pretty isolated. But it's close to a decent sized city named Ixmiquilpan, which my ancestors built.

@lbonigga 2 ай бұрын

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@lbonigga 2 ай бұрын

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@WakandaleezaRazz 2 ай бұрын

@@lboniggaLawd knows yall do that each other already, but is that always on your mind Felontavious? Oh lawd 🧑🏿‍🦲

@austinhernandez2716 2 ай бұрын

@@WakandaleezaRazz it's obviously a 13 year old boy that does nothing but stream anime and troll online. Ignore it

@marmac83 2 ай бұрын

Ixmiquilpan. .... pronounce that sh!t

@hectorcardenas2171 Ай бұрын

I am from the central area of this Mexico’s “Empty Belt”. (Zacatecas state)

@spoyledbratt Ай бұрын

Does it feel empty there?

@hectorcardenas2171 Ай бұрын

@@spoyledbratt It surely does.

@soupdrinker Ай бұрын

@@spoyledbrattWhen you drive out from the Zacatecas-Guadalupe metro area or Fresnillo area, it feels empty

@casksj356 Ай бұрын

I’m from there too and it’s very empty! That’s why we all live in the US now. :S

@hectorcardenas2171 Ай бұрын

@@casksj356 Not “all” live in the US, but yeah, there was a lot of migration north; specially in the past.

@philbrooks5979 2 ай бұрын

I believe half of Mexico lives within the central highland subtropical belt around Mexico City. North of it is mostly mountains and deserts, south of it mostly jungle terrain.

@revinhatol 2 ай бұрын

Ask the border towns

@austinhernandez2716 2 ай бұрын

@@revinhatol Why?

@revinhatol Ай бұрын

@@austinhernandez2716 Juarez, Nogales, Tijuana, Mexicali to name a few

@AliciaTheTroonSlayer Ай бұрын

@@revinhatolOkay? He said half the population, not that nobody lives in the north.

@MasteIsIllmatic Ай бұрын

@@AliciaTheTroonSlayer no reading skilzzz. Forgive em

@codenamew Ай бұрын

Just a clarification. The New Spain map as shown in 2:38 is incorrect. The territory of New Spain was much larger including all of California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas and parts of Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming. Also, all of Central America except Panama.

@uriel_in Ай бұрын

There's a big mistake on the land occupied by the viceroy of the new Spain, it was way larger than it's shown in here

@Aldo03_ Ай бұрын

Yes, exactly, this is the fifth video I've seen about New Spain where the old borders are today's borders. New Spain did not end at Texas, California,New Mexico, or Arizona

@elora2525 Ай бұрын

It's not close it's about 10 hours to get to that area. The valley of mesquital is very populated

@cavc94 27 күн бұрын

Not exactly. The map shows the effectiveley controled land. The area omitted was reclaimed by New Spain, and later Mexico, but was mostly controled by indigineous population with few New Spain's/Mexican settlements.

@gustavogaelcamposrojero8517 Ай бұрын

I make a small correction about the most populated cities, Ciudad Victoria is not the most populated urban area but the metropolitan area of Zacatecas with 409,000 people, now without considering the metropolitan area the third most populated city is Guadalupe and not Zacatecas with 170,000 and 130,000 respectively, still very excellent video explaining the geographical area where I live

@mexicanodecorazon1697 Ай бұрын

Mexico, tremendous country! Such a privilege site on Earth!

@janetrojas8939 Ай бұрын

🥰

@A4TuRbO13 Ай бұрын

As a Zacatecano living in the US, this is true. Family mostly grew corn and raised cattle but those 2 industries are very drought dependant and a lot of us just went north instead. Beautiful region though, especially when the monsoons do hit.

@estelle3005 Ай бұрын

I’ve always been interested in the geography of Mexico and your video has satisfies my curiosity satisfactorily. Many thanks 🙏🏽

@discgolfillustrated2640 11 күн бұрын

Excellent presentation.

@jorgecarrillo2 Ай бұрын

Ese cinturón es la región de Convergncia intertropical donde los vientos alisios ecuatoriales y los vientoas contralisios del Norte tienen uun área "neutral" donde la humedad es muy escasa,

@andrewdgw6779 Ай бұрын

Living in Coahuila was so odd yet beautiful

@Anahi1991 Ай бұрын

I miss Coahuila so much 😭

@maniac5191 Ай бұрын

Cool video! I'm from the northwest of Guerrero by Ciudad Altamirano

@SpdWonder Ай бұрын

Why the map doesn't mark Texas as Viceroyalty of New Spain before Mexico's indepence? 3:15

@schadowolf 2 ай бұрын

Another great video, enjoy your channel immensely!

@tonypuga2502 2 ай бұрын

It's so funny how you pronounce Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl 😂😂😂😂

@markvalparaiso1690 Ай бұрын

I couldn't stop laughing. I even rewinded it a few times 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

@veeahr1672 Ай бұрын

I appreciate the effort

@sgrant9814 Ай бұрын

We just say popo

@sgrant9814 Ай бұрын

@@CathodeRayNipplez that comment is uncalled for as i have been to many "shitholes" in the world and many of them have been in the usa.

@carlosarengas7875 Ай бұрын

Hahaha gagged

@aliwehr561 Ай бұрын

Good video. TY for sharing.

@PASTRAMIKick Ай бұрын

Miguel Hidalgo did NOT call for the independence of Mexico, or New Spain as he saw it. He wanted to rally against the usurper king Joseph Bonaparte who had deposed the legitimate Bourbon monarch. Things got out of control and Hidalgo's successor Morelos changed the end goal to Mexican independence.

@Jonathan13S 2 ай бұрын

Good video thank you

@BobCollins42 2 ай бұрын

I realize that it would reduce your empty space gig, but the most significant empty space I know of is the Darién Gap.

@lbonigga 2 ай бұрын

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@lbonigga 2 ай бұрын

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@lbonigga 2 ай бұрын

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@dr.woozie7500 2 ай бұрын

Which is located in Panama, not Mexico...

@WakandaleezaRazz Ай бұрын

@@lboniggaChimpanzeisha, you wildin kween 👩🏿‍🦲

@coffee-co8gk Ай бұрын

Great video. Thanks

@haroutmanougian8945 Ай бұрын

Next April 1, you have to do Antarctica

@maikotter9945 Ай бұрын

The coming Ice Hocey world champion!

@Honeycomblife Ай бұрын

There's more lands and world's on the other side of Antarctica allegedly but they don't want us to know to keep us in control

@jean-francoisavon62 Ай бұрын

this video has about 3 minutes of content.

@JTA1961 Ай бұрын

Well put.

@ArtofBrandonTruster Ай бұрын

Nice video, as usual but, I did notice it says "Cascadia" behind you? Are you pro Cascadia?

@Illumisepoolist Ай бұрын

Can you do on the Koreas?

@LuisGutierrezG123 Ай бұрын

5:59 very weird to see my tiny hometown in a video, never expected it

@ssushii7711 21 күн бұрын

Truly

@thewanderingtriathlete144 2 ай бұрын

I got 10 minutes to wait for this to premier.

@Ruben-xh5vs Ай бұрын

Wish you would have shown the sleeping lady mountain range.

@Edward-zw9ld 2 ай бұрын

GREAT VID!

@brendanwoodward6295 Ай бұрын

The video was informative, but the background music was a bit distracting

@Megadebt Ай бұрын

Can you do Japan? much like Mexico, there are huge pockets of land that is relatively empty.

@Calizen Ай бұрын

I am from Mexicos “empty belt” specifically from the state of Zacatecas in Jerez, although I have never really given it thought, it is very interesting to hear that I live in an area where only 3% of Mexicans live 😂

@andrewmathieson8579 Ай бұрын

Australia says ‘hold my beer’

@damej_13 Ай бұрын

Good video I'm from Mexico

@andirv5926 27 күн бұрын

I did not know this area was so sparsely populated. Wow!

@SirNilooo Ай бұрын

Wait, Tepic Nayarit has about 370K people living in it , or was it not part of “the belt”?

@gladr9272 29 күн бұрын

I am from the Aguascalientes state, right below Zacatecas and the empty belt, and have many co-workers from there that commute everyday to Aguascalientes city (1-1.5 hour trip). I actually just spent a vacation going around the empty belt, from Zacatecas city to Real de Catorce, which is a mining ghost town. Both extremely beautiful, with awesome food and honestly super nice and cordial people, if rather serious/reserved. But true, on the highway there is gas shortage, no phone signal, barely any police presence and very few roadside stores or towns, etc. When you enter Aguascalientes from the north the contrast is very very noticeable.

@edgarpc8648 23 күн бұрын

I live very close to Villa de Cos about an hour away from Zacatecas, and the cartel is very active right now. It’s probably because of the elections, but you really should stay away for now.

@migdez Ай бұрын

Interesting that the empty belt is adjacent and parallel to the new volcanic axis which ranges from Veracruz East Cost to the coast of Nayarit in the Pacific.

@Aldo03_ Ай бұрын

Yes

@Aldo03_ Ай бұрын

I think that's Tamaulipas coast line

@Eed-gr5mr 2 ай бұрын

I would figure that Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas would be the least populated

@Mike-kc5ew Ай бұрын

Why would they be the least populated? Do you know how many "American made" cars are made in Mexico? There are tons of factories in Northern Mexico, which means good wages there. And frankly, I'm happy with that. I'd rather we get goods from Mexico rather than China.

@Eed-gr5mr Ай бұрын

@@Mike-kc5ew I just figured that the bigger the state the lower the population

@Anahi1991 Ай бұрын

@@Mike-kc5ew Because it’s true? Factories have brought people to the north but you’re vastly overestimating lol. Factories don’t bring millions. My family is from Coahuila, 3.1 million. There’s more than double the people in the Houston area where I live. The more populous northern state is Nuevo León actually which has a short border and none of the auto factories (those are in Tamaulipas)

@angelpistone818 Ай бұрын

With 21 habitants per square kilometer (Mexican average is 64) Coahuila ranks as the 6th least populated state in Mexico, as a Coahuilense I can say that cities and towns in my state are too spread, it takes hours to drive just from one town to a medium city, population in Coahuila is around 3.5 millions, but the state is big compared with other states .

@Mike-kc5ew Ай бұрын

@@Anahi1991I'm certainly not claiming that Northern Mexico is the highest populated part of Mexico, but come on, it's certainly not the lowest populated either. There are 31 Mexican states, and the Federal District, and 6 of the states border the U.S.: Nuevo León (yes, barely borders, but it still does - it's the 7th largest Mexican state population wise at about 5.784 million), Baja California (the 11th largest at ~3.769 million), Chihuahua (the 12th largest at ~3.741 million), Tamaulipas (the 14th largest at ~3,527), Coahuila (the 15th largest and still bigger than half of the Mexican states at ~3.146 million), and finally Sonora (the 18th largest at ~2.944 million, and finally below the median population of all Mexican states). With those states, you do have a sizeable population in Northern Mexico at about 22,914,680, which is almost 17.5% of Mexico's total population. By all means there are more populated areas further south, but Northern Mexico still has a decent size. As far as listing the state by population density, that doesn't do any justice to how many million do live in Northern Mexico. It would be like listing the United States by population density, which people rarely do. As the most densely populated U.S. states are New Jersey, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maryland (some of the smallest U.S. States). Texas and California don't even show up when ranking by density, until you're out of the top 10.

@dinofearme1 Ай бұрын

Not you missing that Spanish missions and presidios covered half of Texas

@1bam1productions Ай бұрын

I like your channel but can you slow down your content a little bit to make it easier to follow and absorb

@sunnydivino Ай бұрын

I live in the south of Mexico and my city has become stupidly expensive to live in. I wish I could move to one of those empty cities in search of a less expensive way of living, many people are in a similar situation. Sadly, because of the organized crime we are deterred from moving there.

@PsychyFunkyMonkey Ай бұрын

Christopher Columbus didn't topple the empire, it was Hernán Cortez

@davocreative Ай бұрын

Amazing country.

@Diego-gg1rc Ай бұрын

I have to say when it comes to Monterrey it was already a really big city before it started to establish trade relations with the US, And right now barely American companies are starting to move in, I highly doubt you even researched about that

@rodrigoe.gordillo2617 Ай бұрын

It was big but not that big until the 40s, cities like Puebla were more populated

@Diego-gg1rc Ай бұрын

@@rodrigoe.gordillo2617 yes and just until now this few decades american industry has been establishing itself there, doesn’t that prove my point?

@JorgeSchz2004 Ай бұрын

True, Monterrey was already a big city.

@diegoalbertogallardogarcia3190 Ай бұрын

Fun fact, more then half of Baja California peninsula is least populated than other regions having 80% people living in the North (Tijuana-Mexicali-Ensenada) or South (La Paz - Los Cabos)

@Goingwithafakehandlehere Ай бұрын

I feel like the tl;dr version of pretty much every video is: "water"

@believeinpeace Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@ricardosplace 27 күн бұрын

I live in Sonora State, 2nd largest by area (179,355 km2) and we're not even 3 million people

@SantaFe19484 Ай бұрын

This channel is the king of empty belts.

@tiago35henrique Ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏

@julieskid1 Ай бұрын

Curious to hear your educated opinion on New Madrid fault zone?

@salvadorlopez1814 Ай бұрын

The most of the mexican population lives at Central Mexico at Temperated Subtropical weather with monzoon summer rain, the north of Mexico including the Baja California peninsula are desert and mountines and bicose that it’s little populated and the Peninsula of Yucatan the rain forest has little population, the only populated area its north near Can Cun an Merida, but the rest of the Yucatan peninsula its no population at all in some areas

@kathyjacques2688 Ай бұрын

I live in southwestern Arizona n lived in El Paso for 3 years, the residents are doing their best to exterminate every bit of greenery n make more desert, everybody has baby tractors they love to play farmer with n the valley fever is the worst it’s ever been

@SarcastiEnchilada Ай бұрын

My family and I living there for generations 🗿

@gustavogaelcamposrojero8517 Ай бұрын

Same 🗿🇲🇽

@Honeycomblife Ай бұрын

I love all of Mexico

@eduardoherrera4894 Ай бұрын

answer. we moved up north as far as new york.

@dj33036 Ай бұрын

Is the city of Aguascalientes not in this belt?

@gustavogaelcamposrojero8517 Ай бұрын

Not

@rgblackshorts Ай бұрын

Deh Dohlohres 😅

@gerardollamas-lamas6905 Ай бұрын

You don’t discuss that Mexico has a large area in the center that has a high altitude (more than 1600 meters to 2500 meters), because of this the area which is quite large has a very temperate climate. Otherwise Mexico would be extremely hot. Instead this area is hot during the day but quite fresh at night. That’s the main reason most mexicans (including myself), live here. Weather is very nice most of the time

@gabrielbarona5781 Ай бұрын

7:05

@terminator9824 Ай бұрын

Why that weird shape of new spain viceroyalty?

@y4lnux Ай бұрын

Good Video , by the way most Modern Mexicans are the offspring of Those Strategic Allies and Spanish inmigrants ... Basically we Don't descend from Aztecs/Meshicas.

@priscy19891 Ай бұрын

I think most Mexican people are half colonizer and half native Mexican. Well that’s what my 23 and me told me.

@koiue.g8709 Ай бұрын

True I have like zero aztec blood

@ernestomondragonromero3024 Ай бұрын

In your yellow map of how Mexico became Mexico, I don’t see San Francisco or Los Ángeles, Las Vegas, San Antonio, or are they called Saint Frank?, The Angels? The stars? Saint Antony? No. It’s bc the New Spain territories stretched up to Canada to the Mississippi French territory

@CMitchell808 Ай бұрын

Yeah, his map is wrong. However, actual viceroyal control over its northern land was tenuous at best. Sure, they were awarded Louisiana, but how much of that land did they actually control? Not much further than the river and Saint Louis.

@Aldo03_ Ай бұрын

You didnt correctly show all of New Spain's Territory Osea The Viceroyalty of New Spain It stretched deep into "North America" It didnt end at Texas/Arizona/New Mexico/California, like how you showed it. Also Hidalgo wasnt grealty influenced by New England's Independency (EEUU) It was more so of Napolean conquering Spain and the Haitan Revolt

@maximilianocarranza9436 Ай бұрын

Me and My family live in this bealt soo it's actually not that empty but is true that it's pretty moutaniuos

@Ignaciombr Ай бұрын

Donde vives exactamente?

@maximilianocarranza9436 Ай бұрын

@@Ignaciombr vivo en el altiplano de san Luis Potosí en un pueblo llamado cerritos

@Ignaciombr Ай бұрын

@@maximilianocarranza9436 y desde ahí estas mirando este canal de YT jeje?

@kocholawis1851 Ай бұрын

@@maximilianocarranza9436 esa parte de san luis es hermosa

@evangelicalsnever-lie9792 2 ай бұрын

I'll bet you $500 million USD that more than one person lives in that region.

@lbonigga 2 ай бұрын

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@lbonigga 2 ай бұрын

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@lbonigga 2 ай бұрын

Iame whlteboy

@lbonigga 2 ай бұрын

EvangelicalsIame whlteboy

@Igbonigga 2 ай бұрын

EvangeIicaIsIame whlteboy

@jeffwako77 Ай бұрын

jeff❌ Geoff✅

@JorgeSchz2004 Ай бұрын

I´m mexican and I´m glad that I live in Monterrey, is a beautiful and modern city. I´m proud to be a Monterrey citizen 🤠

@ernestomondragonromero3024 Ай бұрын

Excuse me! Mexico City in the last census in 2022 already has almost 23 million inhabitants, now imagine the number for 2024

@pepegalvan_ Ай бұрын

I'm originally from Ciudad Victoria (one city from that area), and I can agree the economics are very slow in that region, I fled from there because of that, very bad climate and boring place... not all the region has bad land for farming, but most of this video is accurate.

@Ignaciombr Ай бұрын

Y ahora donde vives?

@tavo4761 Ай бұрын

Nobody? I live there! Zacatecas city, world heritage centre.

@FernandoTRA Ай бұрын

Your map of New Spain is incorrect. And the mineral rich areas developed by the Spanish was not the south.

@dogvom Ай бұрын

11:30 The _what_ of the north?

@u2b891 Ай бұрын

The sultan of the north, La sultana del norte en español. I am from Monterrey and it is also known as that.

@JorgeSchz2004 Ай бұрын

The Sultan of the North, in spanish is *La Sultana del Norte*

@daxmax1681 Ай бұрын

It was NOT inadvertent spread of disease! It was fully intentional!

@jeffs4483 2 ай бұрын

Reason is because they went to live in 'El Norte'.

@Cesarhiguera664 Ай бұрын

Yup theres 100s of thousands, if not millions, of people from those states in el norte.

@alaskanbullworm5500 Ай бұрын

You should do a video about why Venezuela has over 30 times as many people as Guyana hile only being three times the size.

@heraldomedrano1417 Ай бұрын

Los Mexicas.

@user-jq5sj1zm4e Ай бұрын

Monterrey is beautiful 😢

@Nephilim56 Ай бұрын

That's where I'm from lol

@Aldo03_ Ай бұрын

The Haitan Revolt and Napolean conquering Spain was what led to Hidalgo and other government leaders questioning their unity and questioning the Royal Spanish Crown.....

@kaumingo Ай бұрын

Geoff....brush up your pronunciation before you attempt Mexican geography. Notice which one syllable is stressed in each Spanish word. Popocatépetl, for example. And Tenochtitlan, stress on the "i".

@ricasacasari1883 Ай бұрын

Is more simple to explain, no indegenous people, the bigger cities up the north were built on a post-colonization era except a few exceptions (Monterrey, Saltillo, Hermosillo) and these newer cities were created by design for economical purposes, all border cities because US, railroad stops like Torreon, mining cities like Durango or Chihuahua.... main reason for the northern isolation is no indigenous people living in these places

@tach1794 Ай бұрын

LoL, I live in this area

@mailobiker9525 Ай бұрын

Highly recommend to visit La Huasteca Potosina, it lays in this empty bell but it is a gorgeous natural reserve, once in a lifetime experience!!

@Mrgunsngear Ай бұрын

🇺🇸

@ricardopang3166 Ай бұрын

Ora ora si ahí está la capital del mundo mi Ciudad Victoria

@HachiMiura Ай бұрын

Not a fan of the music this week.

@bennyadrianmartinez Ай бұрын

Mexica people not Aztec. Please check your source on that because that source is wrong or bias and wrong.

@JaimeBurciaga Ай бұрын

I would have added Coahuila desert and Comarca (co-march or co-mark) Lagunera region to the belt. Hence, the importance of La Laguna, one of the youngest population areas in México. The importance of La Laguna is its logistics because of its position in the map. It is surrounded by empty regions.

@charcossinagua Ай бұрын

Comarca means region in English. Your translations don't make sense.

@JaimeBurciaga Ай бұрын

@@charcossinagua There's no word in English for comarca. A comarca is the region between two areas ruled by two marqueses. The Nueva Vizcaya (Durango) march and the Nueva Extremadura (Coahuila) march.

@danielreigada1542 Ай бұрын

Why can't people be more evenly distributed?!?

@juanperea2283 Ай бұрын

It’s interesting how all big metropolitan areas in Tamaulipas border the “empty belt”.

@kaymillerfromTX Ай бұрын

The 3 largest are border cities, not in this belt. Not hard to figure out, that’s where the maquiladoras (US factories) are.

@juanperea2283 Ай бұрын

@@kaymillerfromTX the biggest metropolitan area in Tamaulipas is Tampico, which encompasses the 3 southern most municipalities of the state (Tampico, Madero and Altamira) and 2 additional municipalities in Veracruz (Panuco and Pueblo Viejo). If you pay attention to the map it deliberately leaves out certain southern municipalities of Tamaulipas, all three that make the Tampico MZ and what looks like the Mante municipality, which is boosts a population of about 80,000. It’s quite easy to figure out why Reynosa, Matamoros and Nuevo Laredo are left out of the “empty belt”, but it’s interesting how both the northern most and southern most municipalities of Tamaulipas are left out of the belt, hence why I made my comment. :)

@kaymillerfromTX Ай бұрын

@@juanperea2283 I guess you’re right, different sources say it’s the 1st and some 3rd lol. But either way, I think that’s because Tampico is on the coast and not in the mountainous belt he was talking about but I could just be giving him the benefit of the doubt with his maps maybe. Now that I’ve watched on my TV instead of my small phone, it does look weird that he included almost all of Tamaulipas 🤔