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Mexico: Earth's Festival of LifeSeries 1, Mountain WorldsIn pictures...

Mexico is a vast country, dominated by a great chain of mountains - the Sierra Madre.

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The Copper Canyon in Chihuahua covers 25,000 square miles

This range is cut by a maze of gorges, some deeper than the Grand Canyon.

  • Mexico's black bears (Ursus americanus)
  • A male orchid bee (Euglossa viridissima)
  • Coati (Nasua Nasua)
  • Martin, a young jimador who tends and harvests the blue agave plant
  • Child at Day of the Dead festivities in Oaxaca
  • At a cemetary in Oaxaca, villagers light candles
  • Popocatépetl is Mexico's most active volcano
  • Mexico City is the capital of Mexico and home to over 21 million people
  • Marigolds for sale at the Central de Abastos in Mexico City
  • A Resplendent quetzal (Pharomachrus mocinno) male at its nest cavity.
  • The Copper Canyon in Chihuahua covers 25,000 square miles
  • Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus)

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