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Places We Protect
Mexico
The Baja Peninsula
It is a region of deserts and mountains, palm oases and rugged coastlines. It extends nearly 800 miles from the United States border south to Cabo San Lucas.
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Chihuahuan Desert
It is the largest desert in North America and is located between two of Mexico’s largest mountain ranges called the eastern and western Sierra Madres.
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Sonoran Desert and Grasslands
The 55-million-acre Sonoran desert stretches across Mexico and the United States, including the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California and parts of the U.S. states of Arizona, California and New Mexico.
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The Northeastern Yucatan Peninsula
It harbors a rich mosaic of dry and moist forests, wetlands, coastal lagoons and sand dunes.
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Chiapas
This region in southern Mexico is home to a host of important habitas, such as pine-oak forests, cloud forests and coastal wetlands.
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The Gulf of California
It is wedged between the Baja California Peninsula and the mainland of Mexico. It is also known as the Sea of Cortez, and it is one of the most diverse seas on Earth.
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Mesoamerican Reef
Spanning Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, it is the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere and second in the world only to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
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The Maya Forest
This is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the Americas outside of the Amazon.
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