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 federal government. 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 pro ...

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 faun

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, Sonora, and Sinaloa)

Baja California Sur

* Balandra * Cabo San Lucas

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 riv ...

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 Tutuaca Flora and Fauna Protection Area is a protected area in the states of Chihuahua and Sonora in northwestern Mexico. It lies in the Sierra Madre Occidental, and covers an area of 4369.86 km2. To the southeast it adjoins Papigochic Flo ...

Coahuila

* Cuatrociénegas *

Maderas del Carmen Maderas del Carmen is a biosphere reserve in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila. Maderas del Carmen encompasses part of the Sierra del Carmen, a northern finger of the Sierra Madre Oriental range. The reserve includes both dry Chihuahuan ...

* Ocampo

Colima

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Jalisco

* La Primavera *

Sierra de Quila Sierra de Quila, officially the Sierra de Quila Flora and Fauna Protection Area, is a Mexican Flora and Fauna Protection Area in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. It has an area of 15,193 hectares, and is located within six municipalities: San Martí ...

Estado de México

Ciénegas del Lerma The Ciénegas del Lerma is a wetland in central Mexico. It consists of three lakes in the Toluca Valley, the upper basin of the Lerma River, near the city of Toluca. The wetlands cover 3,023 hectares. The three lakes are the what remains of a muc ...

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 ar ...

Michoacán

* Pico de Tancítaro

Morelos

* Corredor Biológico Chichinautzin (also in Distrito Federal)

Oaxaca

* Boquerón de Tonalá

Quintana Roo

* Bala'an Ka'ax *

Cozumel Cozumel (; yua, Kùutsmil) 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 Yucat� ...

* 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 arch ...

* Yum Balam

San Luis Potosí

* Sierra La Mojonera * Sierra de Álvarez

Sinaloa

* Meseta de Cacaxtla

Sonora

* Sierra de Álamos-Río Cuchujaqui *

Bavispe Bavispe is a small town and a municipality in the northeast part of the Mexican state of Sonora. Location The municipality is located in the northeast of the state at . The elevation of the administrative seat is 902 meters above sea level. It ...

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 T ...

Tamaulipas

* Laguna Madre and Río Bravo Delta *

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

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