Mexico

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which is nearly 800 miles long and only about 100 miles wide. The central core is occupied by sky scraping mountains such as the San Pedro Matir and Sierra de Juarez mountain range.

The coastal ranges include picturesque views and beaches, with famous and popular tourist sites such as Manzanillo, Ixtapa-Zihuatenejo, Acapulco, and Puerto Escondido. The Rio Grande de Santiago flows out of Lake Chapala to the northwest, dropping over the dissected border of the mesa central into the pacific. The Rio Grande is known as the Rio Bravo del Norte in Mexico, it is also by far the major river in this country. It also forms the majority of the international border. The rivers throughout Mexico carve their way through canyons to pour out into the Gulf of Mexico.

Most of Mexico lies south of the tropic of cancer, so therefor the temperatures vary. There are regions such as Acapulco with an average of 80 degrees F, or Jalapa with an average of 63.6 degrees, and Pachuca with an average ...

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