Natural resources protection areas of Mexico
Mexico's Natural resources protection areas (or Áreas de Protección de Recursos Naturales in Spanish) are nine federally-recognized protected areas in Mexico that are administrated by the federal National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, or CONANP).[1]
They are critical natural resources that are preserved and protected, such as water sources and important forest areas.[2]
List of natural resources protection areas
[edit]The nine areas are:
- Las Huertas (1.67 km2) in Colima
- Zona Protectora Forestal Vedada Cuenca Hidrográfica del Río Necaxa (421.29 km2) in Puebla
- Zona Protectora Forestal los terrenos constitutivos de las cuencas de los ríos Valle de Bravo, Malacatepec, Tilostoc y Temascaltepec (1,402.34 km2) in Estado de Mexico
- Cuenca Alimentadora del Distrito Nacional de Riego 004 Don Martín (15,193.85 km2) sources of the rivers Sabinas, Alamós, and Salado y Mimbres in Coahuila
- Cuenca Alimentadora del Distrito Nacional de Riego 01 Pabellón (977 km2) in Zacatecas and Aguascalientes
- Cuenca Alimentadora del Distrito Nacional de Riego 043 Estado de Nayarit (23,290.27 km2), as regards the sub-basins of the Ameca, Atenguillo, Bolaños, Grande de Santiago, Juchipila, Atengo, and Tlaltenango rivers in Durango, Jalisco, Nayarit, Aguascalientes, and Zacatecas.
- Zona de Protección Forestal en los terrenos que se encuentran en los municipios de La Concordia, Angel Albino Corzo, Villa Flores y Jiquipilas (1775.46 km2) in Chiapas
- Cuenca Alimentadora del Distrito Nacional de Riego 026 Bajo Río San Juan (1971.57 km2) in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon
- Quebrada de Santa Bárbara (0.66 km2) in Durango
References
[edit]- ^ UNEP-WCMC (2021). Protected Area Profile for Mexico from the World Database of Protected Areas. Accessed 6 September 2021. [1]
- ^ "Areas de Proteccion de los Recursos Naturales". Archived from the original on November 13, 2006. Retrieved January 27, 2007.
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