HT201794 spanish keyboard on american imac

I live and bought my MAC in USA, however, I bought a keyboard Mexico to be able to use all the special characters in the Spanish vocabulary but my MAC does not respond to the characters I type. I have tried changing the keybord settings in System Preferences but haven't been succesful.

System Preferences / Language & Text / Input Sources
Tick Keyboard & Character Viewer as well as Spanish and Spanish - ISO. When that is done, a little flag will pop in the menubar. There you will find which keyboard layout is active, US will always be there. Using the Keyboard Viewer also found there, you will need to experiment which of the two Spanish layouts matches your keyboard. The Keyboard Viewer will also show you were all the characters are laid out, including those that require two keypresses: just hold down Option and see which keys light up in dark yellow.

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