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Animation about the park created by the Pro Natura organization. A decree by President Lázaro Cárdenas on November 8, 1935 established a national park on Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl. [2] The decree established the park's lower boundary at the 3000-meter contour, excluding the town of Río Frío de Juárez. A second decree on 13 March ...
Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park Los Volcanes Biosphere Reserve (established 2010) is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve located within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt of south-central Mexico. The 171,774.4 hectares (663.225 sq mi) reserve surrounds the volcanoes of Popocatépetl and Ixtaccíhuatl and marks the biogeographical boundary between the ...
Iztaccíhuatl or Ixtaccíhuatl (both forms also spelled without the accent) (Nahuatl pronunciation: [istakˈsiwat͡ɬ] ⓘ or, as spelled with the x, [iʃtakˈsiwat͡ɬ]) is a 5,230 m (17,160 ft) [1] dormant volcanic mountain in Mexico located on the border between the State of Mexico and Puebla within Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park.
View of the Puebla Valley, with Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl in the distance, 1906. Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl refers to the volcanoes Popocatépetl ("the Smoking Mountain") and Iztaccíhuatl ("white woman" in Nahuatl, sometimes called the Mujer Dormida "sleeping woman" in Spanish) [1] in Iztaccíhuatl–Popocatépetl National Park, [2] [3] which overlook the Valley of Mexico and the ...
The altitude of the pass is about 3,400 m (11,200 ft), and serves as the access point to Izta-Popo Zoquiapan National Park. The pass is located in the municipality of Amecameca in the State of México, about 90 km (56 mi) southeast of Mexico City.
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In addition to the many National reserves, refuges and parks in Ecuador there are some privately owned and operated reserves and refuges not listed on this page which is exclusively National Parks and other National Ecological Assets.
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