Trans-Mexican volcanic belt
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The Trans-Mexican volcanic belt (Eje Volcánico Transversal) is a mountain range that extends 900 km from west to east across central Mexico. It is also locally known as Sierra Nevada due to the fact that most of its highest peaks have snow all year long.
LR Ixtaccíhuatl, Popocatépetl, Matlalcueitl (Malinche), Cofre de Perote (most distant), Pico de Orizaba, Sierra Negra
It runs from Jalisco east through northern Michoacán, southern Guanajuato, southern Querétaro, México State, southern Hidalgo, Tlaxcala, northern Morelos and Puebla to southern Veracruz. In central Mexico, its north flank joins the southern ends of the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental ranges, and its south flank the Sierra Madre del Sur.
The highest point, also the highest point in Mexico, is Pico de Orizaba (5610 m) also known as Citlaltépetl, located at . This, and several of the other higher peaks, are active or dormant volcanoes; other notable volcanoes in the range include (from west to east) Nevado de Colima (4339 m), Parícutin (2774 m), Nevado de Toluca (4577 m), Popocatépetl (5452 m), Iztaccíhuatl (5286 m), Matlalcueitl (4461 m) Cofre de Perote (4282 m) and Sierra Negra, a companion of the Pico de Orizaba (4580 m).
The mountains are home to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests, one of the Madrean pine-oak woodlands ecoregions.
[edit] External links
- Mexico Volcanoes and Volcanics USGS
- Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests (World Wildlife Fund)
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