Mexico is located in North America at the limit of the United
States at North, of the Gulf of California in Western North,
of the Pacific Ocean in the West, Guatemala and Belize in
the South, and of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in the
East.
The geography of Mexico is very varied and offers many contrasts,
there are marshy and desert zones, zones of vegetation and
tropical climate and zones of high mountains.
Mexico has more than 10 000 km of beaches, distributed on
7 100 km on the coast Pacifique and the others 2 900 km on
the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. About half of the
Mexican territory an average altitude of 1 has 000 meters
and the volcano Pico de Orizaba (or Citlatépelt) reached
the 5 747 meters of altitude.
The central part of Mexico is a high plate surrounded by high
mountains, some of them are of volcanic origin.
The Northern part of this plate arid and is populated little
although it occupies 40% of the territory of the country.
The Southern zone is crossed by a volcanic mountainous chain
since Cabo Corrientes in the West until Veracruz in the East,
while passing by the Valley of Mexico and by including splendid
volcanos like Orizzaba, Popocatépetl, Ixtaccihuati,
Nevado de Toluca, Matlalcueyetl and Cofre de Perote. This
zone is the heart of Mexico and contains half of the population
of the country. To the South the grounds go down to the small
population from the isthmus from Tehuantepec A Is, the coast
of the Gulf and the peninsula of Yucatán are plains
and receive 75% of precipitations of Mexico.
The agricultural area most productive of Mexico east that
of Western North whereas on the coast of the Gulf, the richness
comes from oil and from suffers.
With broad of the Western Northern coast, vis-a-vis with the
peninsula of Low California and the South East with broad
of the coast of Bay of Campeche and the peninsula of Yucatán,
the low grounds are marshy with coastal lagoons.
