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5.2 Mexico. 5.3 United States. 6 Oceania. ... Zones humides de l'Onilahy: 42,950 106,100 Zones Humides de Sahamalaza: 24,049 59,430 Malawi. Name Area (ha) Area (acre)
Onilahy is a river in Atsimo-Andrefana and Anosy (Toliara Province), southern Madagascar. It flows down from the hills near Betroka to the Mozambique Channel . It empties at St. Augustin ( 23°34′00″S 43°45′00″E / 23.5666667°S 43.75°E / -23.5666667; 43.75 ), and into the Bay of Saint-Augustin
The following is a list of ecoregions in Mexico as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). A different system of ecoregional analysis is used by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation , a trilateral body linking Mexican, Canadian and United States environmental regime.
February and July generally are the driest and wettest months, respectively. Mexico City, for example, receives an average of only 5 millimeters (0.2 in) of rain during February but more than 160 millimeters (6.3 in) in July. Coastal areas, especially those along the Gulf of Mexico, experience the largest amounts of rain in September.
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. It extends 200 mi (320 km ...
There are currently 232 Protected Natural Areas in Mexico, covering 98 million hectares in total. They are protected and administered by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, or 'CONANP'), a federal agency under the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT). [1]
The fortress of San Juan de Ulúa, overlooking the city of Veracruz, was the key port of the Gulf of Mexico, accounting for over a third of all global transatlantic trade in the 16th and 17th centuries, connecting the Americas with Europe, China, Japan, and the Philippines. It was also an entry port for African slaves.
This is a list of the extreme coordinates of Mexico, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location. Easternmost point: 86° 42' 36" W longitude, southeast tip of Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo. Westernmost point: 118° 22' 00" W longitude, Roca Elefante at Isla de Guadalupe, in the Pacific Ocean.