Sierra Madre del Sur


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Si·er·ra Ma·dre del Sur

 (sē-ĕr′ə mä′drā dĕl so͞or′, syĕr′ä mä′drĕ)
A mountain range of southern Mexico along the Pacific coast.
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Orogenesis has pushed up mountain chains all across Mexico, including the Sierra Madre Oriental, Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre del Sur. These three regions have formed some of the key metallogenic areas.
Conotrachelus aguacatae had high environmental suitability in the model output for the central-western region of Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt province, adjacent areas of Mexican Plateau and Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt provinces, adjacent areas of Balsas Basin and Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt provinces, across Sierra Madre del Sur, adjacent areas of Balsas Basin and Sierra Madre Oriental, and central Sierra Madre Oriental biogeographic provinces (Fig.
However, predictions of modeling ecological niche made on a country-wide scale and additional anecdotic reports from other areas suggested that the distribution of jaguars in Michoacan could be broader and included the coast, the Sierra Madre del Sur, and the Balsas river basin (Nunez, 2007; Rodriguez, 2010).
Representa la region comprendida entre el Eje Volcanico Transversal y la Sierra Madre del Sur.
Este trabajo es el resultado del proyecto"Diversidad floristica en Malinaltepec y Metlatonoc en la Sierra Madre del Sur de Guerrero", apoyado por el Comite Tecnico del programa de Apoyo a Proyectos de Investigacion e Innovacion Tecnologica (PAPIIT) de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (clave IN223705-2).
Se pueden distinguir cinco unidades geomorfologicas basicas: la Sierra Madre del Sur, la cuenca alta del Rio Balsas, la Faja neovolcanica transversa, la Costa del Pacifico y los manglares mesoamericanos del norte Pacifico (Olson et al.