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The Spanish name sierra madre means "mother mountain range" in English, and occidental means "western", these thus being the "Western mother mountain range". [1] To the east, from the Spanish oriental meaning "eastern" in English, the Sierra Madre Oriental range or "Eastern mother mountain range" runs generally parallel to the Sierra Madre Occidental along eastern Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Sierra Madre Occidental run north to south in western Mexico from the center of the country towards the United States border. The Sierra Madre Occidental is Mexico's largest range, and the ecoregion extends approximately 1,200 kilometers from southern Arizona to northern Jalisco. [4] The highest peak is Cerro Mohinora (3300 m) in southern ...
English: Approximate area of the Sierra Madre Occidental Pine-Oak Forests ecoregion - of the Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests Biome - in Northwestern and western Central Mexico. Date 19 December 2010
Basaseachic Falls National Park was created by the Mexican federal government on February 2, 1981, by decree under president Jose Lopez Portillo. The park was defined to 5,803 hectares (14,340 acres) in the Sierra Madre Occidental along the surrounding area of the Basaseachic Falls and Barranca de Candameña. [2]
The Sierra Madre Oriental (Spanish: [ˈsjera ˈmaðɾe oɾjenˈtal] ⓘ) is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico.The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, South America, and Antarctica.
The Sierra Madre Oriental — the primary north/south mountain range along the east coast of Mexico. Map of major Mexican mountain ranges: Sierra Madre Oriental (right), Sierra Madre Occidental , Sierra Madre del Sur , and east-west Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt .
Sierra Madre Occidental — the primary mountain range of coastal northwestern Mexico. The Physiographic province (geology) is a part of the North American Cordillera system. The main article for this category is Sierra Madre Occidental .
Landforms of the Sierra Madre Occidental — a major mountain range system in Mexico, and of the North American Cordillera. The range runs northwest/southeast through northwestern and western Mexico. Many of its watersheds drain into the Gulf of California and Pacific Ocean .