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Six Mexican Volcanoes
LR Ixtaccíhuatl, Popocatépetl, Matlalcueitl (Malinche), Cofre de Perote (most distant), Pico de Orizaba, Sierra Negra
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Major volcanoes of Mexico
The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Eje Volcánico Transversal) is a volcanic belt that extends 900 km from west to east across central-southern Mexico. It is also locally known as Sierra Nevada ('Snowy Range') since several of its highest peaks have snow all year long. During clear weather, they are visible to a large proportions of those who live in Mexico on the many high plateaus from which these volcanoes rise.

From the west, it runs from Jalisco east through northern Michoacán, southern Guanajuato, southern Querétaro, México State, southern Hidalgo, the Distrito Federal, northern Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala, to central Veracruz. The Mexican Plateau lies to the north, bounded by the Sierra Madre Occidental to the west and Sierra Madre Oriental to the east. Cofre de Perote volcano, in Veracruz, is where the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt meets the Sierra Madre Oriental. To the south, the basin of the Balsas River lies between the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt and the Sierra Madre del Sur.

The highest point, also the highest point in Mexico, is Pico de Orizaba (5636 m) also known as Citlaltépetl, located at . This, and several of the other high peaks, are active or dormant volcanoes; other notable volcanoes in the range include (from west to east) Nevado de Colima (4339 m), Parícutin (2774 m), Nevado de Toluca (4577 m), Popocatépetl (5452 m), Iztaccíhuatl (5286 m), Matlalcueitl (4461 m) Cofre de Perote (4282 m) and Sierra Negra, a companion of the Pico de Orizaba (4580 m).

The mountains are home to the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests, one of the Mesoamerican pine-oak forests ecoregions.

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volcanic belt is a large volcanic region. Other terms are used for smaller areas of activity; in shrinking size there are volcanic belts, clusters, chains and fields.[1]
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Jalisco

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Capital Guadalajara
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Michoacán de Ocampo
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Guanajuato is the name of a state in Mexico and that state's capital city. This article is about the state. For the city, see Guanajuato, Guanajuato.


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Querétaro

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Capital Santiago de Querétaro
Municipalities 18
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Estado de México

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Capital Toluca
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Hidalgo

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Capital Pachuca
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Morelos

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Puebla is the name of both a state in Mexico and that state's capital city. This article is about the state. For the city, see: Puebla, Puebla.


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Tlaxcala

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Veracruz is the name of both a state in Mexico and that state's largest city. This article is about the state. For the city, see Veracruz, Veracruz. For other uses, see Veracruz (disambiguation).

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The Mexican Plateau, also known as the Mexican Altiplano, is a large plateau that occupies much of northern and central Mexico. It extends from the United States border in the north to the Cordillera Neovolcánica in the south, and is bounded by the Sierra Madre Occidental
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Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range in western Mexico and the extreme southwest of the United States, extending 1500 km from southeast Arizona (south and east of Tucson) southeast through eastern Sonora, western Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes to Guanajuato,
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Sierra Madre Oriental



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Cofre de Perote, originally Naupa-Tecutépetl in the Nahuatl language, is known also as Nauhcampatépetl. Both Nahuatl names mean something like 'Place of Four Mountain' or 'Mountain of the Lord of Four Places'.
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Balsas River is a river in south-central Mexico that drains the large Balsas Basin (a graben). At 771 kilometres long it is one of Mexico's longest rivers. The Balsas River originates at the confluence of the San Martin and Zahuapan Rivers in the state of Puebla.
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Sierra Madre del Sur is a mountain range in southern Mexico, extending 1000 km from southern Michoacán east through Guerrero, to the Istmo de Tehuantepec in eastern Oaxaca.
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Pico de Orizaba, or Citlaltépetl (from Nahuatl citlal(in) = star, and tepētl = mountain), is the highest mountain in Mexico and the third highest in North America.
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Colima's Volcano is the most active volcano in Mexico, and has erupted more than 40 times since 1576.

Despite its name, only a fraction of the volcano's surface area is contained within the state of Colima; the majority of its surface area lies just over the border in the
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Parícutin (or Volcán de Parícutin, commonly also accented Paricutín or spelled unaccented as Paricutin) is a volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacán, close to a lava-covered village of the same name. It appears on many versions of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
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Nevado de Toluca is a large stratovolcano in central Mexico, located about 80 km west of Mexico City near the city of Toluca. It is generally cited as the fourth highest of Mexico's peaks, after Pico de Orizaba, Popocatépetl, and Iztaccíhuatl, although by some measurements,
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Popocatépetl (commonly referred to as El Popo or Don Goyo) (IPA: [popokaˈtepetɬ]) is an active volcano and the second highest peak in Mexico after the Pico de Orizaba (5,636 m).
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Iztaccíhuatl (alternative spellings include Ixtaccíhuatl, or either variant spelled without the accent) (IPA: [istakˈsiwatɬ] or, as spelled with the x, IPA:
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La Malinche mountain, also known as Matlalcuéyetl, Matlalcueitl or Malintzin, is a seemingly inactive volcano located in Tlaxcala and Puebla states, in Mexico. Officially, its summit reaches 4,461 meters (14646 ft) above sea level, though in some articles is considered to be 4,503
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Cofre de Perote, originally Naupa-Tecutépetl in the Nahuatl language, is known also as Nauhcampatépetl. Both Nahuatl names mean something like 'Place of Four Mountain' or 'Mountain of the Lord of Four Places'.
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Sierra Negra (also, and perhaps more properly, called Cerro La Negra) is a companion peak of Mexico's highest mountain, the Pico de Orizaba. At 4,640 m (0 ft)
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The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests is a subtropical coniferous forest ecoregion of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt of central Mexico.

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The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests occupy an area of 91,800 square kilometers (35,400 square miles),
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