The Biodiversity of Mexico

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This paper explains that the impression that all of Mexico is hot and dry and made up of mostly rural societies is wrong. The writer points out that the countery also contains icy mountain peaks as found in the Sierra Madre systems, lush jungles and agricultural regions as found in the temperate tierra templada and exquisite coastal zones along the Pacific Ocean and Baja California. The author explains that anthropologists have traditionally divided the ethnic categories of Mexico into two categories, the Indian and the Mestizo; today the majority of Mexican society is mestizo, one of the most distinctive sociological elements of Mexico. The paper relates that because of the variety of these topographical and geological regions, vast species of flora and fauna thrive despite the interference of the modern-day world.

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"All of the major topographical regions of northern Mexico run north and south and can be viewed as extensions of regions within the southwestern United States. The Sierra Madre Occidental is thus an extension of the Sierra Nevada; the Sierra Madre Oriental which defines the eastern edge of the highlands of northern Mexico is an extension of the Rocky Mountains. The Sierra Madre Oriental runs from the border with Texas south to the northern part of the state of Puebla and although narrower than the Sierra Madre Occidental, it reaches higher altitudes, peaking at over 3,700 meters in the state of Nuevo Leon. In this environment, "animal life is rich and is reminiscent of those biomes elsewhere in the world with similar vegetation characteristics." "

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