Baseball is consolidated as the third national sport only behind football and box, which monopolize the main interest of fans in Mexico. Mexico has produced over 100 players into the US Major Leagues, some of them considered sports legends. Mexico also has its own professional leagues. There is both a summer league (Mexican League of Baseball) and a winter league (Mexican Pacific League).
Boxing is the sport that grew the most according to Consulta Mitofsky, when it reached 36.2 percent of Mexicans' taste, that is, three points more than in 2016; while basketball is in fourth place with 23.8. Some of the most famous boxers in all history were Mexican. The Boxing Hall of Fame includes many Mexicans. Soccer stopped its fall for the last three years. In 2014 it had 70.1 percent, it fell to 56.2 in 2015, it dropped to 53.8 in 2016 and this year it climbed to 55.7. Football became a professional men's sport in 1943. Since then, Mexico's top men's clubs have been América with 13 championships, Guadalajara with 12, Toluca with 10 and Cruz Azul with 8. The first women's professional football league began play during the 2017–18 Liga MX Femenil season. It set new world records for attendance at a women's professional football match. In any case, as we can see in the table in Mexico, many more sports are practiced, like, tennis, basketball, lucha libre... |
National sport by excellence: Charrería MexicanaLa Charrería is a source of pride and tradition in Mexican culture. His practice combines horse riding with various forms of horse riding, equestrian activities and traditional forms of cattle raising. In Mexico, the Charrería is considered as a sport national par excellence since it was registered in the National Sports Commission. It is done in "Canvases Charros "which are specially designed facilities for your practice together with a horse and a rider called "charro".
It originates in the plains of Apán in Hidalgo and after passing the Mexican Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, it is considered as a National Sport when the former landowners They emigrate to cities such as Mexico City and Guadalajara, where they start organizing in associations that spread throughout the country giving rise to the Charrería Organizada. The origins of the charro costume come from the same activity in the field, since the natives of New Spain, were allowed to ride horses and perform the tasks of their activities. |
Extreme Sports
The municipality of Jalcomulco is one of the best places in Mexico to do rafting. The La Antigua river has sectors of varying degrees of difficulty so you can hace a graet time descending.
El Sótano de las golondrinas is one of the most impressive nat is a chasm of tural monuments in Mexico. Is a chasm with a depth of 512 meters. This basement is perfect for rappel practitioners and the most daring paratroopers.
Barrancas del cobre is a system of seven ravines with extensions and depths plus 2,340 meters. Only passing by train on the bridges that cross the ravines is an adventure that produces vertigo. Here you can do canyoning, climbing, rappelling and kayak descents.
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