Animals that can be found here include coyotes, gavilanes ( sparrowhawks), various snakes, owls, chameleons, tarantulas and scorpions. The region has two reservoirs: the Lázaro Cárdenas (Palmito) and the Francisco Zarco (Tórtolas), located between the Cuencamé and Lerdo municipalities. It is defined by two rivers: the Nazas and the Aguanaval. The area was at one time under the sea, but today the vegetation consists of scrub, nopal cactus, maguey plants, barrel cactus and other arid zone plants. The area is relatively flat with some mountain ranges and a slight incline towards the interior of the country. These municipalities are classified as either part of the Chihuahua Desert or in the transition zone. Temperatures are cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Most of the terrain here is flat and its climate is dry. The Semi-desert (sometimes called the Bolsón de Mapimí) is located in the northeast of the state and includes the municipalities of Hidalgo, Mapimí (including the Silent Zone, Tlahualilo, San Pedro del Gallo, San Luis del Cordero, Nazas, Lerdo, Gómez Palacio, Cuencamé, Santa Clara, General Simón Bolívar and San Juan de Guadalupe. ĭesert tortoise in the Mapimí Biosphere Reserve Ecological regions Įcologically, the state is divided into four regions: La Quebrada, the Sierra, the Valleys and the Semi-desert. Some of these rivers empty into the Pacific, or into the lake area of La Comarca, while one, the Florida, flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Many rivers begin in Durango, but lead into other Mexican states. However, the tree density in many areas is still too low, especially on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Madre Occidental where tree poaching and clearing for agricultural activities is problematic. Reforesting efforts have focused on replanting native tree species, versus those used for wood production. Like much of northern Mexico, the state has worked to reforest the degraded forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre Oriental. Most of the state is mountainous and heavily forested, with the Sierra Madre Occidental covering around two-thirds of the state. View toward the canyon at the Mexiquillo ( es) nature reserve. It is hot and dry in the East, with some temperate areas existing at higher elevations. Excepting the highest elevations, the rest of the state has semi-arid and temperate climates. Las Quebradas region, located over the mountain chain and on the northwest of the state, has a humid subtropical climate. The Sierra Madre Occidental blocks moisture from the Pacific Ocean, impacting the local climate of the state. It is divided into 39 municipalities, based on the 1917 Constitution of Mexico, and several additional divisions have been made since. ĭurango is landlocked, bordered by Chihuahua, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Nayarit and Sinaloa. The city of Durango is on the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental, with an elevation of 1,857 m. The state has an average elevation of 1,775 meters above sea level, with a mean elevation of 1,750 m in the Valleys region and 2,450 m in the Sierra region.
It is the fourth largest state lying at the extreme northwest of the Central Mexican Plateau, where it meets the Sierra Madre Occidental-the highest peaks in the state. With 123,451.2 km 2 or 12.3 million ha, Durango accounts for about 6.3% of the entire territory of Mexico.
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