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The Weather, a natural wonder of Bahía de Banderas

Bahía de Banderas has been blessed by having a privileged location. Its temperature, vegetation and fauna are characteristics that favor us enjoying an enviable climate.

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The morphological and climatic conditions that we have in the region make possible the presence of a great variety of ecosystems that are home to unimaginable flora and fauna species. Mexico is considered one of the richest countries in the world in terms of biodiversity, having only 10% of the planet's species in our territory. You imagine? The reason is simple, our country has an incredible diversity of environments generated precisely by its orography, which creates elevations and depressions in the terrain, forming beautiful mountains and rivers throughout the country.

But what does the mountain have to do with the weather?

All! The mountain that contains us forms a thermal wall that provides us with that freshness that characterizes our climate.

Our mountains, beyond framing a great photograph of the bay with their exuberance and color, are in charge of regulating our temperature.

There are also other factors of course, they help to balance the climate in addition to the trees and the mountains. The presence of hurricanes that are formed by differences in sea temperatures, indisputably influence the land, due to the contribution of water that derives from it, increasing humidity and thereby decreasing the temperature. In other words, as strange as it may seem to you, everything has a reason on this earth and even the formation of hurricanes contributes to the fact that we can enjoy cool temperatures throughout the year and are also known as microclimates.

The expert Biologist Jaime Torres explained to us how the country's land area is divided into the north and south by the transversal volcanic axis, which joins the Eastern and Western Sierra Madres, and which in turn extends from the Veracruz state to Nayarit, separating North America from Central America. These two large regions present similar characteristics such as climate, vegetation and fauna, which are known as bio-geographical regions.

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The mountain that contains us forms a thermal wall that provides us with that freshness that characterizes our climate.

The Nearctic geographical region covers the northern part of Mexico, which is represented by the temperate and cold zones of the Sierra Madre Occidental, and which covers the coastal states, passing through Chihuahua until reaching Jalisco. The Coastal Plain covers the coasts of Sonora, Sinaloa and Nayarit; The predominant ecosystems in these places are: desert scrub, grasslands, and temperate forests of pine and oak. The fauna specimens that we can associate are: the bighorn sheep and the black bear.

On the other hand, the neotropical region that goes from the center of the country to the south, covers Central America and South America, and includes the humid and sub-humid lowlands, as well as the high parts of the Sierra Madre del Sur, which run parallel to the coast, from Nayarit and that we can observe in our beautiful Bay of Banderas, to the state of Oaxaca. Here the main ecosystems are the forests with trees up to 30 meters high, whose foliage is green all year round and with a great abundance of lianas. We also find temperate and cloud forests that have high humidity, and that give it that variety of greens that fill our eyes and that, among other things, these tropical coastal ecosystems, are also represented by coastal lagoons, wetlands, and swamps that in another We'll talk more about it in a moment.

The species of animals that we can associate with the ecosystem of our region are: the humpback whale, the jaguar, the iguana, the crocodile, the white-tailed deer, the boa, among many others.
On another occasion we will tell you about some peculiarities of these great characters who were the first to inhabit Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas, meanwhile do not miss the opportunity to observe the biodiversity that inhabits the most beautiful bay...

María Karina Macias Aguirre

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