Jalisco: a showcase for Mexico’s wide biodiversity

Published December 10, 2022

In their book, “Geo-Mexico,” geographers Richard Rhoda and Tony Burton divide Mexico into five major land-based ecosystems, which for the sake of brevity I will call: deserts, high forests, grasslands, tropical evergreen forests and tropical deciduous forests.

Curiously, all of these ecosystems converge within the borders of the weirdly shaped state of Jalisco.

Because the state capital of Guadalajara is located almost in the center, highways radiate from it like the spokes of a wheel, offering visitors relatively easy access to portions of all these ecosystems.

Below follows a guide to where to find examples of these five systems:

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