Alta Cima is a village located within
El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, in the municipality of
Gómez Farías in
Tamaulipas, Mexico.
There are approximately 180 residents living in 40 households.
The nearest cities are
Ciudad Mante
Mante, formally Ciudad Mante, is a city in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The city is the municipal seat of El Mante municipality in extreme southern Tamaulipas, and lies in the northwestern portion of the municipality. It had a 2005 census ...
and
Ciudad Victoria
Ciudad Victoria () is the seat of the Municipality of Victoria, and the capital of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It is located in the northeast of Mexico at the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental. It borders the municipality of Güémez to ...
.
Tourism
There is one hotel in Alta Cima,
Hotel El Pino
A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a ref ...
, which consists of cabins and
campsites. The homes of residents of Alta Cima are open to visitors and tourists, and some operate
ecotourism
Ecotourism is a form of tourism involving responsible travel (using sustainable transport) to natural areas, conserving the environment, and improving the well-being of the local people. Its purpose may be to educate the traveler, to provide fund ...
guiding businesses.
Natural Resources
Alta Cima and the surrounding nature reserve are biodiversity hotspots. Bird watching is popular with more than 255 species of resident birds and 175 migrants.
[''Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad'', http://www2.inecc.gob.mx/publicaciones/libros/2/cielo.html, accessed 18 Dec 2014]
References
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Populated places in Tamaulipas
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