The two arms of the Sierra Madre Mountains — Occidental (west) and Oriental (east) — march south through Mexico, holding between them the high, largely arid Mexican Plateau. This plateau is roughly 1,130 kilometers long (~ 700 miles), and ranges from 1,220 to 2,440 meters high (4,000 - 8,000 feet). What water there is on the Plateau has no outlet to the sea, and so collects in drainage basins that today are the home of a number of Mexicos major cities. A number of large cities are visible in this true-color Aqua MODIS image. About 75 kilometers due east of the group of fires in the upper left corner is the city of Chihuahua, which perches on the western side of the plateau near the Occidental range. On the opposite side of the plateau and about 550 kilometers southeast, two cities face each other from opposite sides of the Oriental range: Saltillo (west) and Monterrey (east). At the southern end of the plateau, a number of cities can be seen. The large grey dot north of Laguna de Chapala is Guadalajara, one of Mexicos foremost cities. In the lower right corner of the image is the capital itself, Mexico City. Scattered throughout this image from December 22, 2003, are a number of fires (marked in red). Southwestern Texas is visible in the upper right corner of the image, while the Pacific Ocean occupies the lower left.
Source: Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

Mexico - Categories of Maps

Western Mexico 2003 - Related Maps

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Satellite Image of Mexico 2004	Western Mexico 2001	Northern Mexico 2002
Fires in Mexico and Central America 2002	Gulf of Mexico	Mexico
Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico November 1997	Fires, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico June 1998	Fires in southern Mexico 2004
Fires in southern Mexico 2004	Dust storm in central Mexico 2004	Fires and smoke across Southern Mexico 2003

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Mexico - States

Aguascalientes, Mexico	Baja California, Mexico	Baja California Sur, Mexico
Campeche, Mexico	Chiapas, Mexico	Chihuahua, Mexico
Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico	Colima, Mexico	Durango, Mexico
Guanajuato, Mexico	Guerrero, Mexico	Hidalgo, Mexico
Jalisco, Mexico	Mexico City, Mexico	Michoacán de Ocampo, Mexico
Morelos, Mexico	Nayarit, Mexico	Nuevo León, Mexico
Oaxaca, Mexico	Puebla, Mexico	Querétaro Arteaga, Mexico
Quintana Roo, Mexico	San Luis Potosí, Mexico	Sinaloa, Mexico
Sonora, Mexico	State of Mexico, Mexico	Tabasco, Mexico
Tamaulipas, Mexico	Tlaxcala, Mexico	Veracruz, Mexico
Yucatán, Mexico	Zacatecas, Mexico