Sierra madre occidental

Cactus dropoff, Sierra Madre Occidental, Chihuahua, Mexico

The Sierra Madre Occidental is a mountain range in Mexico.

Sierra Madre Occidental

Basaseachi, Chihuahua México 🇲🇽

Sierra Madre Occidental | Alex Bordeline In the heart of Mexico lies a natural treasure that has remained largely unexplored and underappreciated – Sierra Madre Occidental. This magnificent m…

Photographer’s comment: “The Rarámuri (Tarahumara) rely on the rich heritage of the many maize varieties that their ancestors domesticated and brought to the Sierra Tarahumara in NW Mexico. Women play an increasingly dominant role in maize production here, as more

Mexiquillo es un parque natural ubicado al oeste del estado de Durango, México en el municipio de Pueblo Nuevo, sobre la Sierra Madre Occidental. Es el...

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Sierra de Durango

I first became interested in the Tarahumara or Rarámuri of the rugged Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico as a graduate student in Latin American Studies in the early 80s. At that time, people…

Sierra Madre, mountain system of Mexico. It consists of the Sierra Madre Occidental (to the west), the Sierra Madre Oriental (to the east), and the Sierra Madre del Sur (to the south). These ranges enclose the great central Mexican Plateau, which itself is a part of the system—although the northern portion of the plateau also is considered to be part of the Basin and Range Province in the United States—and is broken by blocks of mountain ranges and large ephemeral drainage basins called…

Basaseachic Falls on the Basaseachic River is the second-highest waterfall in Mexico, located in the Parque Nacional Basaseachic at Cañon Basaseachic in the Copper Canyon region of northwest Mexico, near Creel, Chihuahua. It is 246 meters (807 ft) tall, second in Mexico only to the Cascada de Piedra Volada (Flying Stone Falls).Basaseachic Falls is located in the high mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental. (1993)

Sierra Madre, home to the Indigenous Tarahumaras

As part of my ongoing research of traditional Mexican Huarache sandals on Huarache Blog, last Friday I went to the 13th Ultra Caballo Blanco race in the small town of Urique. For those not familiar with Christopher McDougall's book "Born to Run", the Ultra Caballo Blanco is a unique 50 mile ultra marathon that offers runners from anywhere…

Mammillaria senilis, mountains of Sierra Madre Occidental, 1800m

Diorama detail of Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos), with Imperial woodpecker (Campephilus imperialis), from the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico, where both sp...

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"The Rarámuri or Tarahumara are a Native American people of northwestern Mexico who are renowned for their long-distance running ability with simple but durable foot protection. They escaped Spanish Conversion by retreating to the high "sierras" and canyons such as Copper Canyon in the Sierra Madre Occidental upon the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 16th century. They are considered to be of pure Native American blood with no mixed Spanish influence"