Sierra La Mojonera Flora and Fauna Protection Area is a protected natural area of northeastern

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. It covers a portion of the Sierra La Mojonera range, a western outlier of the

Sierra Madre Oriental The Sierra Madre Oriental () is a mountain range in northeastern Mexico. The Sierra Madre Oriental is part of the American Cordillera, a chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that consists of an almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges that f ...

, in northern

San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí), is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and i ...

. The protected area was established in 2000, and covers an area of .

Flora and fauna

According to the National Biodiversity Information System of Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) in Sierra La Mojonera Flora and Fauna Protection Area there are over 30 plant and animal species, of which 1 is exotic.

References

{{Reflist Flora and fauna protection areas of Mexico Protected areas of San Luis Potosí Protected areas of the Sierra Madre Oriental