Raíces is a Mexican village on the slopes of the volcano
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 ...
in the Municipio of
Zinacantepec
Zinacantepec is a municipality located just west of the city of Toluca in Mexico State, Mexico. The municipal seat is the town of San Miguel Zinacantepec. Zinacantepec is Nahuatl for "bat mountain" and its Aztec glyph is a bat on a mountain. I ...
,
Estado de México at the altitude of 3,531 metres (11,584 ft). The population of the village is around 500 people. Raices has Monsoon-influenced
Cold subtropical highland (Cwc) climate .
[https://es.climate-data.org/america-del-norte/mexico/mexico-21/] It is the highest town in
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere, Northern and Western Hemisphere, Western hemispheres. North America is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South Ameri ...
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References
Neighborhoods in the State of Mexico
Zinacantepec
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