Mexico

Description of Mexico

Mexico is a country in North America. Its capital is Mexico City. The country area is about 1,972,550 square kilometers. It borders with Guatemala and Belize in the south and with United States of America in the east and north. The west of the country is washed by the Pacific Ocean and the east with the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico also includes the islands in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea: Cozumel (Caribbean Sea), Socorro (Pacific Ocean), Maria Island (Pacific Ocean), Jacques Cousteau Island (Gulf of California in the Pacific Ocean), Guadalupe (Pacific Ocean), Revilla Hihedo (Pacific Ocean), Isla Del Carmen (Gulf of Mexico), and Tiburon (Pacific Ocean).

Most of the country is a vast plateau surrounded by mountain ranges, which pass into the small coastal plains on the east and west. Mexico's central plateau is a continuation of the USA valleys. The Eastern mountain range Sierra Madre Oriental and the Western Sierra Madre Occidental meet in the south-eastern region of La Junta and form a labyrinth of volcanoes - the Sierra Madre del Sol, which include the highest points of Mexico, rising up to 5700 meters (Orizaba, Popocatepetl and others). In the north, the height of the highland ranges from 1070 to 1230 meters above sea level, in the south from 1830 to 2450 m. There are two valleys on the territory of the plateau: Anahuac and Bol son de Mapimi.

Coastal regions of Mexico are mostly sandy beaches. Some area of the Pacific Coast is occupied by mountains. The northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula belongs to Mexico; the Mexican states of Campeche, Yucatan, Quintana Roo are situated there. The average height of the peninsula above sea level is about 30 meters. Mexico has few large rivers and most of them are unnavigable. The longest river, the Rio Grande, flows along the US-Mexican border; the other important rivers of the country are Grihalva, Salinas, Bal-Sas-Panuco, Rio Salado, Usumakinta, Sacramento, Conchos. The largest freshwater lake of Mexico is located in the west of the country at an altitude of 1,524 meters above sea level; it has a name of Chapala, and Lerma River, Rio Sula, Rio Douro and Rio Guaracha fall into it. The Mexican valley Anahuac has several small lakes.

In the north, the country's climate is subtropical, and is tropical in the south. In the area of the highland is usually much cooler (from +2 C in winter to +15 C in summer) than on the coast, where the temperature does not drop below +20 C, even in winter. Is much warmer on the coast (temperature does not fall below +20 C) than in the area of ​​the Mexican Plateau (from +2 to +15). In the northern part of the country and in the mountains sometimes falls little snow in wintertime that usually melts quickly. In resort areas (Cancun, Mazatlan, Acapulco, Los Cabos, Cozumel, Puerto Vallarta, Playa del Carmen) the temperature ranges from +22 in winter to +35 in summer. Due to the nature of the relief a range of high-altitude areas is clearly expressed.

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