Geography of Mexico Geography of Mexico Anahuac is a plateau in Mexico, at a mean elevation of 7580 ft. (~2300 m), limited by the traditional and vaguely defined boundaries of an ancient Native American empire or confederation of that name previous to the Spanish conquest. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anahuac"
Baja California or Lower California is a peninsula in the west of Mexico. It extends some 1250 km from Tijuana in the north to Cabo San Lucas in the south, separating the Pacific Ocean from the Gulf of California (or "Sea of Cortés"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Baja California Peninsula"
The Bay of Campeche ( Spanish: Bahía de Campeche) is the southern bight of the Gulf of Mexico. It is surrounded on three sides by the Mexican states of Campeche, Tabasco and Veracruz. It was named by Fernando de Córdoba and Antonio de Alaminos during their expedition around 1517. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bay of Campeche"
Cabo Rojo (21°47'N 97°35'W) is a barrier of quartzite sand deposited adjacent to the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, about 35 miles (55 km) south of the city of Tampico. It encloses the brackish lagoon called Laguna de Tamiahua. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cabo Rojo, Mexico"
Cenote (pronounced say-no-tay, plural: Cenotes) is the name given in the southern part of Mexico and Central America to freshwater-filled limestone sinkholes. Cenotes are fully or partially collapsed karst caves. Mature cenotes often resemble small, circular lakes or lagoons with vertical edges. The name cenote derives from Mayan language dzonot. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cenote"
Corregidora, Querétaro, México also known as El Pueblito (little town) ...more on Wikipedia about "Corregidora"
El Chichon is the most southern and eastern volcano in Mexico, and prior to 1982, was thought to be extinct. Consequently, activity of the volcano was not being monitored and the 1982 eruption was a total surprise (although, with hindsight, local inhabitants had noticed increased earthquake activity for some months prior to the first eruption). ...more on Wikipedia about "El Chichon"
Mexico is a country situated in North America, bordering the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, between Belize and the United States and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Guatemala and the US. As well as numerous neighbouring islands, Mexican territory includes the more remote Isla Guadalupe and the Islas Revillagigedo in the Pacific Ocean. Mexico's total area covers 1,972,550 square kilometers, including approximately 6,000 square kilometers of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of California (see fig. 3). On its north, Mexico shares a 3,326-kilometer border with the United States. The meandering Río Bravo del Norte (known as the Rio Grande in the United States) defines the border from Ciudad Juárez east to the Gulf of Mexico. A series of natural and artificial markers delineate the United States-Mexican border west from Ciudad Juárez to the Pacific Ocean. On its south, Mexico shares an 871 kilometer border with Guatemala and a 251-kilometer border with Belize. Mexico has a 10,143 kilometer coastline, of which 7,338 kilometers face the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California, and the remaining 2,805 kilometers front the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Mexico's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), which extends 200 nautical miles (370 km) off each coast, covers approximately 2.7 million square kilometers. The landmass of Mexico dramatically narrows as it moves in a southeasterly direction from the United States border and then abruptly curves northward before ending in the 500-kilometer-long Yucatan Peninsula. Indeed, the capital of Yucatán State, Mérida, is farther north than Mexico City or Guadalajara. ...more on Wikipedia about "Geography of Mexico"
The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an isthmus in Mexico. It represents the shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. The name comes from the town of Santo Domingo Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca, which in turn comes from the Nahuatl tecuani-tepec (" jaguar hill"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Isthmus of Tehuantepec"
La Bufadora is a marine geyser, or Blowhole located on the Punta Banda Peninsula in Baja California, Mexico. The spout of marine water (occurring every minute or so to varying degrees of height) is created when ocean waves and air is drawn into an underwater cave located in the cliffside, and the trapped air and water then explode upwards. This interaction not only creates the upward-shooting spout, but a thunderous noise as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "La Bufadora"
Laguna Catemaco is a lake located at the center of the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas in south central Veracruz, in east central Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Laguna Catemaco"
This is a list of Biosphere Reserves in Mexico as 2004. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of Biosphere Reserves in Mexico"
==List of caves in Mexico== ...more on Wikipedia about "List of caves in Mexico"
Los Tuxtlas only live in the eye of the beholder. The name refer to various concepts depending on who is talking or listening. ...more on Wikipedia about "Los Tuxtlas"
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(Metropolitan Areas of Mexico) *(es) INEGI Web Page . ...more on Wikipedia about "Metropolitan Areas of Mexico"
Plateau laying to the west of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mexican plateau"
The Ojinaga Cut was a parcel of land between Ojinaga, Chihuahua, and Presidio, Texas, that gave rise to an international border dispute between the United States and Mexico when the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) changed course. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ojinaga Cut"
Riviera Maya is a tourism district following the highway 307 of Quintana Roo, Mexico. It historically started at Playa del Carmen and ended at Tulum pueblo, though the towns of Puerto Morelos to the north of Playa del Carmen and Felipe Carrillo Puerto inland are both currently being promoted as part of the Riviera Maya tourist corridor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Riviera Maya"
Salinas De Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, is a small town located at the southeastern part of the state. It attracts a variety of tourists because of its historical contents, and quality of being. It is believed that at one time it used to belong to the colonial state Zacatecas, but even today, people still argue whether it was. It is a state that is surrounded by ranches and places that seem of interest because of its mass in culture, and religious values. ...more on Wikipedia about "Salinas de Hidalgo"
The Sonoran Desert (sometimes also called Gila Desert after Gila River) is a North American desert which straddles part of the U.S.-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the Mexican state of Sonora. It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 120,000 square miles (311,000 square kilometres). The desert contains a variety of unique plants and animals, such as the saguaro cactus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sonoran Desert"
Sumidero Canyon ( Spanish: Cañón del Sumidero) is a canyon located about 40 km from Tuxtla Gutiérrez, capital of the Mexican state of Chiapas. Its cliff is 900 meters above sea level and overlooks the Grijalva River, which goes across the states of Chiapas and Tabasco and flows into the Gulf of Mexico. In its southern entrance, the canyon begins near the city of Chiapa de Corzo, and flows into the reservoir of the hydroelectric dam Manuel Moreno Torres, best known as Chicoasén. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sumidero Canyon"
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Tepeyac or the Hill of Tepeyac, historically known by the names "Tepeyacac" and "Tepeaquilla", is located inside Gustavo A. Madero, the northernmost delegación or borough of the Mexican Federal District. It is the site where Saint Juan Diego is said to have met the Virgin of Guadalupe in December of 1531, and the Basilica of Guadalupe is located there today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tepeyac"
The international border between Mexico and the United States runs from San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, in the west to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east. It traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts. From the border crossing at El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, to the east, it follows the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) to the Gulf of Mexico; from the same binational conurbation westward to the Pacific Ocean, it crosses vast tracts of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts, the Colorado River Delta, and the northernmost tip of the Baja California Peninsula. ...more on Wikipedia about "United States–Mexico border"
The Yucatán Peninsula separates the Caribbean Sea from the Gulf of Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yucatán Peninsula"
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