Majestic, the Mexican Golden Eagle dominates the vast mountains and meadows on which it spreads its wings. National symbol that goes back to the legend of the foundation of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, where the eagle perched on a prickly pear eats a snake. For the Aztecs, the eagle is the disguise of the sun, "life-giving star and dispenser of light." As it takes flight, its outstretched wings symbolize a cross that delimits the four cosmic directions and is itself the axis of the world.
In Mexico, the Golden Eagle mainly inhabits the northern states.
