Mountain ranges of North America Mountain ranges of North America The Continental Divide or Great Divide is a ridge of mountains in North America, which separates the watershed area of streams and rivers that flow west into the Pacific Ocean from those that flow east into the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans. The majority of the divide follows the crest of the Rocky Mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Continental Divide"
El Coahuilón is a mountain range located on the southeast side of the Mexican state of Coahuila, extending into Nuevo León. The highest peak in the formation is about 3460 metres high. These mountains are part of the Sierra Madre Oriental, a system that runs from northeastern Mexico to the south side of the country and that joins with the Sierra Madre Occidental at the narrowest part of Mexico in Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. The landscape at the slopes of El Coahuilón are woodlands; plenty of forest with pine, fir and other evergreen tree species; Pinus ayacahuite ( Mexican White Pine), Pinus hartwegii ( Hartweg's Pine), Pinus cembroides ( Mexican Pinyon) and Pinus culminicola ( Potosi Pinyon); furthermore, this ecosystem has plenty of evergreen oaks and bushes. ...more on Wikipedia about "El Coahuilón"
The Peninsular Ranges are a group of mountain ranges which stretch 1500 km (900 miles) from southern California in the United States to the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula; they are part of the North American Coast Ranges that run along the Pacific coast from Alaska to Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Peninsular Ranges"
The Sierra Juárez is a mountain range on the Baja California Peninsula, in northern Mexico. It is located in Baja California state, just south of the United States border. It is part of the Peninsular Ranges, and the Laguna Mountains of California lie to the north, and the Sierra San Pedro Mártir lies to the south. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sierra Juárez"
The Sierra Madre del Sur is a mountain range in southern Mexico, extending 1000 km from southern Michoacán east through Guerrero, to the Istmo de Tehuantepec in eastern Oaxaca. It joins with the Eje Volcánico Transversal of central Mexico in northern Oaxaca, but is separated from this range further west by the valley of the Río Balsas and its tributary the Río Tepalcatepec. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sierra Madre del Sur"
The Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range in western Mexico and the extreme southwest of the United States, extending 1500 km from southeast Arizona (south and east of Tucson) southeast through eastern Sonora, western Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes to Guanajuato, where it joins with the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Eje Volcánico Transversal of central Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sierra Madre Occidental"
The Sierra Madre Oriental is a mountain range (continuing in the U.S. with the Rocky Mountains) in northeastern Mexico, spanning 1000 km from Coahuila south through Nuevo León, southwest Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Hidalgo, to northern Puebla and Querétaro, where it joins with the Sierra Madre Occidental and the Eje Volcánico Transversal of central Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sierra Madre Oriental" It's real shortopedia feeling!
The Sierra San Pedro Mártir is a mountain chain that runs north-south along the northern part of Baja California in northwest Mexico. The highest point is Cerro de la Encantada, 3096 m. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sierra San Pedro Mártir"
The Trans-Mexican volcanic belt (Eje Volcánico Transversal) is a mountain range that extends 900 km from west to east across central Mexico. It is also locally known as Sierra Nevada due to the fact that most of its highest peaks have snow all year long. ...more on Wikipedia about "Trans-Mexican volcanic belt"
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