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Geography
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MEXICO
... Wonderful country with a thousand faces, its cities, its beaches from
paradise and the pyramids witnesses to several civilisations. |
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Mexico is bordered by the United States to the North, to the East by the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, to the South by Belize and Guatemala and to the West by the Pacific Ocean and has an area of 1 965 382 kmē. A vast central plateau spreads from the United States to Mexico, in the middle of the country. It is framed by two mountain chains (the Occident Sierra Madre and the Oriental Sierra Madre) that are the extensions of the Rocky Mountains. On one side and the other, littoral plains are low altitude and sandy, though the Pacific coast is sometimes cut by mountains. In the West, the low-California, a long narrow peninsula that stretches to the South for approximately 1200 km, is separated from the rest of the country by the Gulf of California. In the middle of the country, between Guadalajara, Mexico and Veracruz, several actif volcanoes, crowned with eternal snow peak at an altitude of more than 5000 m, namely Popocatepetl and Orizaba, the highest point in Mexico (5700 m). More to the South, the Isthme of Tehantepec joins the Gulf of Campeche and the Gulf of Tehuantepec. Close to the border with Guatemala are the virgin forests of the Chiapas. In the extreme South-East the lower peninsula and the lowlands of Yucatan where the Mayan civilisation developped is covered with steppe to the North and forests to the South. Climate: Mexico
has a tropical climate, tempered by altitude. The rainy season lasts The geographical location of the country has created an eclectic mixture between the flora and fauna of the North and South. Only Indonesia, Brazil and Columbia have a richer biodiversity than Mexico. 14 percent of the fish species of the world can be found in Mexican waters |
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