miércoles, 3 de abril de 2013

State of Mexico

The Satate of Mexico




The state of Mexico is one of the 31 states with the Federal District comprise the 32 states of Mexico. It is located in the center of the country has an area greater than 21 000 km2. Its inhabitants are mexiquenses.
The State of Mexico bounded on the north Querétaro, Hidalgo and Morelos south to Guerrero, Michoacán to the west, the east with Tlaxcala and Puebla, and surrounds the Federal District.


Climate

The differents Climate of The State of Mexico

The area's climate is generally temperate subhumid with summer rains and average temperature between 10 and 16 ° C, with rainfall between 500 and 1500 mm. Except in the Balsas River depression, where it is warm humid due to the low altitude and on top of that is polar volcanoes by height.







Economy

As for primary activities, the state of Mexico stands in producing carnation, chrysanthemum and rose. The State of Mexico, is the largest producer of floriculture in the country, which also exported to countries like Japan, USA, Canada and the UK, in this state also produced nopal, tuna, xoconostle, carrots, potatoes, peppers, squash, beans, tomato, peas, corn, beans, barley and wheat. Besides being a state that despite being landlocked (access to the sea) is positioned as the first national aquaculture producer of trout and carp.


Turism

The state has several protected areas throughout its territory. The most important are: National Parks Desert del Carmen, Bosencheve, Zempoala gaps, Los Remedios, Netzahualcoyotl, the Nevado de Toluca, Zoquiapan and adjoining Sacromonte, Insurgent Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, La Marquesa, Molino de las Flores, Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl and the Biosphere Reserve of the Monarch Butterfly, which was recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Natural Heritage (shared area with Michoacán), which exhibit various types of vegetation: pine, fir, oak, pine-oak and oak scrub crasicaule rosette, tropical deciduous forest.
Nevado de Toluca







Volcanes Popocatepetl & Iztacihuatl















Fauna & Flora

In its varied landscapes, flora varies: in the mountains there are dense forests of pine, oak, white cedar, fir and zacatonal. In the Valley: grasses, sweet vera, cactus, ocotillo.The fauna are: muskrats, weasels, badgers, and skunks tlacoyotes.
Skuns



 


tlalcoyote
 
oak tree

zacatonal



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