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ScribdTranslationsJENNY MARILYN VARGAS GOMEZ.
CODE: 1010089769
Nestled in the Lacandon jungle, to the east of the state of Chiapas, there is
find the biosphere reserve of Montes Azules. It was declared in
1979 with the purpose of protecting the natural wealth it safeguards. With
a surface of 33,200 hectares contains one of the portions of
CONCEPT the most important rainforests in North America. The jungle
it is named after a group of Mayan indigenous people who lived in it
before the conquest: the lacandones
The average annual precipitation of 3,000 mm of rain gives rise to a
important river network that, added to that which comes from Sierra of
DE the Cuchumatanes in Guatemala constitutes a hydrological basin
ACQUISITION of first order. The high humidity allows for the development
of exuberant ecosystems that range from pine forests and
mesophylls to the high jungles and the palm groves of the lowlands
MOUNTAINS floodable, which produce an impressive ecological continuity.
BLUES
This great variety of natural environments and microenvironments has
originated the establishment and proliferation of the highest number of
OF ANALYSIS plant and animal species per unit area in
TYPES North America. Its area is barely 0.16% of the territory.
Mexican but his reserve contains approximately 25% of the
total biodiversity of the Aztec country.
Its natural wealth favored the development of one of the great cultures
Mesoamerican; that of the Maya, whose archaeological sites such as
Xaschilán and Bonampak are witnesses to that cultural splendor. Mexico must
DE to conceive tropical forests as a long-term asset of great
SINTESIS economic importance for the country, as they constitute banks of
available genetic information, useful for solving problems of
nutrition and health in addition to their very important role as regulators
of the climate by moderating winds and temperature, and retaining moisture.
