Tamaulipan mezquital

The Tamaulipan mezquital is a xeric shrubland ecoregion of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas.

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The Tamaulipan mezquital covers an area of 141,500 square kilometers (54,600 square miles). It encompasses the Gulf Coastal Plain of northern Tamaulipas, northeastern Coahuila, and part of Nuevo León states in Mexico, and reaches across the Rio Grande to include a portion of southern Texas. The Sierra Madre Oriental range to the west separates the Tamaulipan mezquital from the drier Chihuahuan Desert. The Tamaulipan matorral is a transitional ecoregion between the mezquital and the Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests to the west and the Veracruz moist forests to the south. The Western Gulf coastal grasslands, known as the Tamaulipan pastizal south of the border, fringe the Gulf of Mexico. The Edwards Plateau savannas lie to the north, and the East Central Texas forests and Texas blackland prairies to the northeast.

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