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After becoming a state, Baja California observed daylight saving time in 1954–1960 and since 1976, usually with the same schedule as the U.S. state of California. In December 1981, for commercial and tourism reasons, the states of Campeche, Yucatán, and Quintana Roo were changed to time zone 75°W (UTC−05:00). [16]
The states of Nevada and Utah, also originally part of Alta California, also use that line for their northern boundaries. The southern boundary, between California and Mexico, was established by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican–American War in 1848. The line is about 30 miles (48 km) north of the former Alta California ...
Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), a stratovolcano on the boundary between the states of Puebla and Veracruz, is the highest mountain peak of Mexico. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of Mexico. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
NASA satellite photo of typical Basin and Range topography across central Nevada. The Basin and Range Province includes much of western North America.In the United States, it is bordered on the west by the eastern fault scarp of the Sierra Nevada and spans over 500 miles (800 km) to its eastern border marked by the Wasatch Fault, the Colorado Plateau and the Rio Grande Rift.
Mexico has a 9,330-kilometer coastline, of which 7,338 kilometers face the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California, and the remaining 2,805 kilometers front the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. Mexico's exclusive economic zone (EEZ) covers 3,269,386 km 2 (1,262,317 sq mi) and is the 13th largest in the world.
The Sonoran desert wraps around the northern end of the Gulf of California, from Baja California Sur (El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve in central and Pacific west coast, Central Gulf Coast subregion on east to southern tip), north through much of Baja California, excluding the central northwest mountains and Pacific west coast, through southeastern California and southwestern and southern ...
The Colorado River is a river in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately 1,450 miles (2,330 km) long, draining a part of the arid regions on the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. The natural course of the river flows from north of Grand Lake, Colorado into the Gulf of California. For many months out of the year ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 19:09, 12 May 2023: 962 × 608 (242 KB) Meithan: Translation of "Mexico time zones map en.svg", which updates the map to the new time zones and DST as of 2023: 20:37, 1 December 2022: 962 × 608 (232 KB) EmmanuelleGT: Reverted to version as of 21:38, 14 February 2015 (UTC) 20:27, 1 December ...