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The volcano Nevado de Toluca or Xinantecatl with 4,690 masl is the 4th highest elevation in Mexico, the volcano is also a national park (Parque Nacional del Nevado de Toluca) and is the main source of water for the inhabitants of the valley of Toluca, where the city of Toluca (with. 1.8 million people) is also located....
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The marsh of Almoloya del Río in the State of Mexico is the origin of the Lerma river, the longest in Mexico. It is one of the few wetlands left in central Mexico and thus an important wintering area for waterfowl and as such is a federally protected area "Refugio de Flora y Fauna Silvestre Ciénegas del Lerma". Forme...
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The National Park Desierto de los Leones was the fitst National Park decreed in Mexico (1917), but well before that was home of monks, who built the Monastery which garden is shown in this picture. The panoramic is composed of 752 pictures taken by a Canon 50D and 70-200 mm zoom (at 200) on a Automate panoramic robot...
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City center of the Town of Metepec in the State of Mexico, Mexico. Low light required the use of ISO 400 (hence the noise). Shot manually on a tripod, 51 pictures.
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The vehicle barriers set up early in 2009 dividing the Playas valley, Hidalgo, New Mexico, from the Janos valley, Janos, Chihuahua, is a barrier which the endangered pronhorn (status in Mexico) and only free ranging bison herd of Mexico and the US Southwest as well as any other ungulate can't cross. While the bison als...
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The Janos Biosphere Reserve in western Chihuahua was the first federally protected area designated as such to protect grasslands, although about half of the reserve falls within the Sierra Madre Occidental, and is covered by oak, conifer and aspen forests. Its wildlife includes black-tailed prairie dogs, bison, kit fox...
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Throughout northern Mexico, cattle has had unrestricted access to the riparian areas for over a century. Besides finding shade and water, cattle has eroded river banks and eaten young trees, therefore, riparian areas in this region are dissapearing, there is no regeneration and once the old trees die, there are no tree...
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23 bison from Wind Cave National Park were taken to Janos to start a breeding group for restoration in other parts of northern Mexico. Thes bison are genetically pure, that is, they have no cattle genes, unlike most (95%) of the bison in North America.
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The Janos Biosphere Reserve is the first federally protected area created to protect grassland ecosystems.
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