The Sierra Madre del Sur is a mountain range in southern Mexico, extending 1000 km from southern Michoacán east through Guerrero, to the Istmo de Tehuantepec in eastern Oaxaca. It joins with the Eje Volcánico Transversal of central Mexico in northern Oaxaca, but is separated from this range further west by the valley of the Río Balsas and its tributary the Río Tepalcatepec. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x722, 209 KB) Description: Geographical view to Mexico and its mountain ranges Sierra Madre Oriental, Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre del Sur Source: World Wind Date: captured 6. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x722, 209 KB) Description: Geographical view to Mexico and its mountain ranges Sierra Madre Oriental, Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre del Sur Source: World Wind Date: captured 6. ... The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... Michoacán de Ocampo (From michoaque, Nahuatl for those who have fish) is one of the 31 constituent states of Mexico. ... Guerrero is a state in the United Mexican States. ... The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an isthmus in Mexico. ... Oaxaca is the name of a city and a state in Mexico. ... The Trans-Mexican volcanic belt (Eje Volcánico Transversal) is a mountain range that extends 900 km from west to east across central Mexico. ...
The highest point is 3703 m, located at 17°33′N 100°18′W in central Guerrero.
Although separated from the main part of the Sierra Madre del Sur by the deep canyon of the lower Río Balsas, the mountains of southern Michoacán around Coalcomán are usually considered part of the Sierra Madre del Sur.
The range is noted for its very high biodiversity and large number of endemic species. Biodiversity or biological diversity is the diversity of and in living nature. ... In biology and ecology endemic means exclusively native to a place or biota, in contrast to cosmopolitan or one of various ways of being not native (e. ...
Sierra Madre[syA´rA mA´thrA] Pronunciation Key, chief mountain system of Mexico, consisting of the SierraMadre Oriental, the SierraMadre Occidental, and the SierraMadredelSur and forming the dissected edges of the vast central Mexican plateau; a volcanic belt along the plateau's southern edge links the three sierras.
The SierraMadre Oriental[OryentAl´] Pronunciation Key, beginning in barren hills S of the Rio Grande, runs for c.700 mi (1,130 km) roughly parallel to the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, ranging from 10 to 200 mi (16–320 km) inland.
The SierraMadredel Sur[del soor´] Pronunciation Key is a tumbled, broken mass of uptilted mountains that touch the Pacific coast but form into no clearly defined range.
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