Gulf of Mexico 1979, the "Ixtoc I" oil platform in the Bay of Campeche suffered a blowout leading to a catastrophic explosion, which resulted in a massive oil spill that continued for nine months before the well was finally capped. This was ranked as the largest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico until the "Deepwater Horizon" oil spill in 2010. On April 20, 2010, the "Deepwater Horizon" oil platform, located in the Mississippi Canyon about off the Louisiana coast, suffered a catastrophic explosion; it sank a day-and-a-half later. It was in the process of being sealed with cement for temporary abandonment, to
State of Mexico the west of Mexico City and a panhandle that extends around the north and east of this entity. The state name is simply "México" according to the 1917 Constitution of the United Mexican States, but to distinguish it from both the city and the country it is most often called "Estado de México". The demonym used to refer to people and things from the state is "mexiquense", distinct from "mexicano" ("Mexican"), which describes the people or things from the country as a whole. "Mēxihco" was originally the Nahuatl name for the Valley of Mexico where the cities of the Mexica