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The Laguna Miramar in the Lacandon Jungle. The Lacandon Jungle (Spanish: Selva Lacandona) is an area of rainforest which stretches from Chiapas, Mexico, into Guatemala.The heart of this rainforest is located in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas near the border with Guatemala in the Montañas del Oriente region of the state.
In 1993, a young man on a sightseeing trip to the Mayan ruins on Cozumel Island, Mexico wanders away from his tour group. With temperatures rising above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) and the denseness of the jungle, he ends up in a 19-day fight for survival with nothing but his sheer willpower as he tries to find his way out.
Valeriana is a Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche in the tropical rainforest jungle near its eastern border with the state of Quintana Roo. [1] Its discovery was announced in October 2024, and the site was named after an adjacent lake.
Lacandon who reside in the southern part of the Chiapas jungle have been more exposed to outsiders, are more aggressive than their highland counterparts, have slightly different dress, and adopted the Christian faith more quickly.
The survival of many species was doubtful. In 2000, only 130 of Guadalupe Island pine still survived, having declined from 360 in 1966. Only 20 Island Oak survived plus a few hundred Guadalupe palms and 4,000 Guadalupe cypress. Only ten California juniper survived.
El Zacatón with free floating grass island (lower right), Municipality of Aldama, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Zacatón is a thermal water-filled sinkhole belonging to the Zacatón system – a group of unusual karst features located in Aldama Municipality near the Sierra de Tamaulipas in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. At a total depth ...
Guadalupe Island (Spanish: Isla Guadalupe) is a volcanic island located 241 kilometres (130 nautical miles) off the western coast of Mexico's Baja California peninsula and about 400 km (200 nmi) southwest of the city of Ensenada in the state of Baja California, in the Pacific Ocean. [1] The various volcanoes are extinct or dormant.
Islands in Gulf of California Name State Location Height Area Altamura Island: Sonora: 101.17 km 2 (39.06 sq mi) : Isla Ángel de la Guarda: Baja California: 1,300 m (4,265 ft)