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The Sierra Madre is a major mountain range in Central America.It is known as the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in Mexico. It crosses El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras. . The Sierra Madre is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that form the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, and ...
The Sierra Madre de Chiapas moist forests is a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in southern Mexico and southern Guatemala, ... cover the mountains' higher ...
The Sierra de Santa Cruz, a similar range, continues east to Cape Cocoli between the Polochic and the Sarstoon rivers. A third, the Sierra de las Minas, or its eastern portion, Sierra del Mico, stretches between the Polochic and the Motagua rivers. Between Honduras and Guatemala, the frontier is formed by the Sierra de Merendón. A few of the ...
Volcán Tajumulco is a large stratovolcano in the department of San Marcos in western Guatemala. It is the highest mountain in Central America at 4,203 metres (13,789 ft). It is part of the mountain range of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas, which begins in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas. [1]
The volcano Tacaná is the second highest peak in Central America at 4,060 metres (13,320 ft), located in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas of western Guatemala and southern Mexico. [1] It is also known in Mexico as Volcán Tacina. [2]
The Central American pine–oak forests occupy an area of 111,400 square kilometres (43,000 sq mi), [1] extending along the mountainous spine of Central America, extending from the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and Chiapas Highlands in Mexico's Chiapas state through the highlands of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to central Nicaragua.
Acatenango is a stratovolcano in Guatemala, close to the city of Antigua.It is part of the mountain range of the Sierra Madre.The volcano has two peaks, Pico Mayor (Highest Peak) and Yepocapa (3,880 m) which is also known as Tres Hermanas (Three Sisters).
Guatemala: Sierra Madre de Chiapas: 3537 m 11,604 ft: 1754 m 5,755 ft: 33.2 km 20.6 mi 9 Montañas Peña Blanca [14] Guatemala: Sierra Madre de Chiapas: 3518 m 11,542 ft: 1858 m 6,096 ft: 39.8 km 24.7 mi