Mexican Flora and Fauna Protection Areas (''Áreas de Protección de Flora y Fauna'' in

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) comprise 29 protected natural areas of

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administrated by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (''Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas'', or CONANP), an agency of the

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. They are areas established to conform to the regulations provided by the

LGEEPA The General Law of Ecological Equilibrium and Environmental Protection (''Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente'', or ''LGEEPA'' in Spanish) is an important piece of Mexican environmental protection Environmental p ...

and other applicable laws on places that contain habitats for which their existence depends on their preservation, transformation, and support of the species of flora and fauna.

List of Mexican Flora and Fauna Protection Areas

Baja California

Valle de los Cirios Valle de los Cirios ("Valley of the Candles") is a wildlife protection area in the southern portion of the municipality of Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico. At in area, it is the second-largest wildlife protection area behind El Vizcaíno Bio ...

* Islas del Golfo de California (Islands of the Gulf of California) (also in

Baja California Sur Baja California Sur, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur, is a state in Mexico. It is the 31st and last state to be admitted, in 1974. It is also the second least populated Mexican state and the ninth-largest state by ...

Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is divided into Municipalities of Sonora, 72 ...

, and

Sinaloa Sinaloa (), officially the (), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 18 municipalities, and its capital city is Culiacán Rosales. It is located in northwest Mexic ...

)

Baja California Sur

* Balandra *

Cabo San Lucas Cabo San Lucas (, "Luke the Evangelist, Saint Luke Cape (geography), Cape"), also known simply as Cabo, is a Resort town, resort city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the Mexican Political divisions of Mexico, state of Baja ...

Campeche

Laguna de Términos Laguna de Términos is the largest tidal lagoon by volume located entirely on the Gulf of Mexico, as well as one of the most biodiverse. Exchanging water with several rivers and lagoons, the Laguna is part of the most important hydrographic rive ...

Chiapas

* Cascada de Agua Azul * Chan-Kin * Metzabok * Nahá

Chihuahua

* Campo Verde * Cañón de Santa Elena *

Cerro Mohinora Cerro Mohinora is an extinct volcano that is part of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range in the Mexican state of Chihuahua (state), Chihuahua located in the municipality of Guadalupe y Calvo. Cerro Mohinora is the highest point in the stat ...

* Médanos de Samalayuca * Papigochic * Tutuaca

Coahuila

* Cuatrociénegas * Maderas del Carmen * Ocampo

Colima

* El Jabalí

Jalisco

* La Primavera * Sierra de Quila

Estado de México

* Ciénegas del Lerma *

Nevado de Toluca Nevado de Toluca () is a stratovolcano in central Mexico, located about west of Mexico City near the city of Toluca. It is the fourth highest of Mexico's peaks, after Pico de Orizaba, Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl. The volcano and the area ...

Michoacán

* Pico de Tancítaro

Morelos

* Corredor Biológico Chichinautzin (also in Distrito Federal)

Oaxaca

* Boquerón de Tonalá

Quintana Roo

* Bala'an Ka'ax *

Cozumel Cozumel (; ) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen. It is separated from the mainland by the Cozumel Channel and is close to the Yucatán Channel. The ...

* Manglares de Nichupté *

Uaymil Uaymil is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located on the Gulf Coast of northern Campeche. The settlement of Uaymil occupies a small island approximately 2.5 kilometers from the coast and 25 km north of Jaina. The site has been archae ...

* Yum Balam

San Luis Potosí

* Sierra La Mojonera * Sierra de Álvarez

Sinaloa

* Meseta de Cacaxtla

Sonora

* Sierra de Álamos-Río Cuchujaqui * Bavispe

Tabasco

Cañón del Usumacinta Cañón del Usumacinta is a protected natural area in southern Mexico. It protects part of the Usumacinta Canyon, where the Usumacinta River winds northwards in a narrow gorge which cuts through parallel ridges. It is located in the state of Ta ...

Tamaulipas

Laguna Madre and Río Bravo Delta Laguna Madre is a coastal lagoon in Northeastern Mexico. It extends along the coast of Tamaulipas for over 200 km, from the Río Bravo Delta on the north to the mouth of the Soto la Marina River near La Pesca in the south. Laguna Madre is sep ...

Sierra de Tamaulipas The Sierra de Tamaulipas is an isolated, semi-tropical mountain range in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Its highest point is . There are no cities or towns in the Sierra and the small population is largely agricultural. The higher elevations o ...

Veracruz

* Sistema Arrecifal Lobos-Tuxpan

Yucatán

* Otoch Ma´Ax Yetel Kooh (also in Quintana Roo)

References

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