| Introduction to Los Tuxtlas Books about Los Tuxtlas Fauna mammals to insects, W.J. Schaldach's Birds of Veracruz. Flora trees, plants, etc. Archaeology archaeological sites, heads . History timeline, prehistoric to present Economy From Agriculture to drugs Culture for gastronomes, bibliophiles etc. Peoples amerindians, mestizos, women, foreigners, poverty. Ecology The problems of Los Tuxtlas are as magnificent as its scenery. |
| Please note: This project was begun in 2006 and was never finished. It is now being restarted and under heavy revision (May 2009). |
| Los Tuxtlas are almost an island. They are an isolated fragment of volcanic mountains, disrupting the plains of the Gulf of Mexico in front of the Sierra Madre, in south central Veracruz, Mexico, and include the furthest northern American extension of jungle habitat and rain forest. The entire region is surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico and the river basins of the Papaloapan and Coatzacoalcos rivers, except for a minor elevation of land near Acayucan. The region may revert to be an island if the threatened increase in rise of sea level should ever occur. |
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