The Place
We were talking about 4 cities /regions to pick a possible place where we will land our house as an example. These cities were;
*Oaxaca state / also the capital city
"The state is best known for its indigenous peoples and cultures. The most numerous and best known are the Zapotecs and the Mixtecs. These cultures have survived better than most others in México due to the state's rugged and isolating terrain... Oaxaca has one of the most rugged terrains in Mexico, with mountain ranges that abruptly fall into the sea. There are three principal climate regions in the state; hot and Subtropical lands, semi-hot and semi-humid, temperate and semi-humid...The Chivela mountain pass in Isthmus of Tehuantepec provides a gap for the wind to pass between mountain ranges, creating the best conditions
for wind power in Mexico. ..Although it is the fifth-largest state in Mexico, it has the most biodiversity...Oaxaca is the nation's second-highest producer of grains and agave. "
for wind power in Mexico. ..Although it is the fifth-largest state in Mexico, it has the most biodiversity...Oaxaca is the nation's second-highest producer of grains and agave. "
*Jalisco state / also the name of the city where tequila is registered.
we discriminated it because of the obvious relationship with tequila
"Jalisco is one of the most important states in Mexico because of its natural resources as well as its history. Many of the characteristic traits of Mexican culture, particularly outside Mexico City, are originally from Jalisco, such as mariachi, ranchera music, birria, tequila, jaripeo, etc., hence the state's motto: "Jalisco es México."
*Michoacán state
"..on the extreme southwest of the central highlands...The state has a considerable natural system of waterways(lakes and rivers), including parts of two of the country's largest rivers, the Lerma and the Balsas...The Michoacán lies on 668m above sea level Michoacán's climate is classified as tropical. In winter, there is much less rainfall than in summer.
*Llanos de Apan
"The plains of Apan is a town where people live in the countryside and where the maguey can support avoiding the erosion of the land and thereby improve their production.
The lands with magueys were replaced by industrial areas, and the need of cultivating the plant is lost, there is no interest in making the Pulque drink.k.
Apan is known nationally for the cultivation of maguey and pulque, but only fame and prestige remains.
The maguey has become extinct because people have finished it. In the lands that they have to cultivate, they preferred to pluck maguey bushes, in order to grow corn, barley, wheat and oats”."
Also, the part that you found in the previous post is very interesting regarding the zones for the agave. So, I will repost it here;
1st center; Tehuacán-Cuicatlán south-central Mexico
Puebla and Oaxaca
semi-arid climate
mixture of vegetation communities
sensibility to the frost must be questioned
" Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve. part of the Mesoamerican region is the arid or semi-arid zone with the richest biodiversity in all of North America... The valley harbors the densest forests of columnar cacti in the world, shaping a unique landscape that also includes agaves, yuccas and oaks. giving rise to human adaptations crucial to the emergence of Mesoamerica, one of the cradles of civilization in the world."
"The arid conditions of the Valley triggered innovation and creativity, originating two of the major technological advances of human history: 1) plant domestication, which in the Valley is one of the most ancient worldwide, and 2) development of water management technologies resulting in a wide array of water management elements, such as canals, wells, terraces, aqueducts and dams which make it the most diversified ancient irrigation complex of the continent."
"The climate of the region is warm semi-dry and warm semi-tropical in the region of the Glen Cuicatec with moderate rains scarce in the summer. In the high parts of the mountains, it is common to see that the mountains are topped by a thick fog that rarely comes to condense in the form a modest drizzle."
2nd center; Sonora north-west Mexico
The Gulf of California
Sierra Madre Occidental
topographic diversity (from sea level to 1900m)
wide range of annual rainfall (from 9cm to 100cm)
" Sonora's natural geography is divided into three parts: the Sierra Madre Occidental in the east of the state; plains and rolling hills in the center; and the coast on the Gulf of California. It is primarily arid or semiarid deserts and grasslands, with only the highest elevations having sufficient rainfall to support other types of vegetation."
"agaves are scattered like gems in an arborescent
matrix. They grow mainly upon the rocky slopes of hills and
mountains and are generally lacking in the valleys and on the
plains. Hence, the distributional pattern is island-like...Sonora
is predominantly a country of open shrub and small tree growth
with intervening grasslands. The arborescent growth varies from
the widely spaced, drought-adapted shrubs of the northwestern
desert to the closely spaced, tropical short-tree forest of the southeastern
barrancas and mountains. The whole constitutes a highly
varied community of plants, in which agaves are fortuitously
deployed...Agaves occur from sea level to the tops of the higher mountains
at elevations of 7,000 to 8,000 feet. They thrive on limestone but
they appear to do as well on igneous rocks and other well-drained,
nonalkalinic land. "
3rd center; Chihuahuan Desert Region east-central Mexico
varied topography
summer rainfall
"These create "sky islands" of cooler, wetter, climates adjacent to, or within the desert, and such elevated areas have both coniferous and broadleaf woodlands, including forests along drainages and favored exposures...The Chihuahuan Desert may be the most biologically diverse desert in the world as measured by species richness or endemism...The desert is mainly a rain shadow desert because the two main mountain ranges covering the desert, the Sierra Madre Occidental to the west and the Sierra Madre Oriental to the east block most moisture from the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico respectively. Climatically, the desert has a dry climate with only one rainy season in the summer and smaller amounts of precipitation in early winter. "
The Chihuahuan desert differs from the Sonoran and Mojave deserts because it receives more summer rain during monsoon thunderstorms and has colder winters.
the place for newly discovered species
the intersection of lowland tropics and pine-oak woodlands
the climate is warm and moist (as a result of large leaves)
no frost tolerance
Llanos de Apan
ReplyDeleteThe plains of Apan is a town where people live in the countryside and where the maguey can support avoiding the erosion of the land and thereby improve their production.
According to their records there is only one pulqueria left, the tradition of before was lost.
No matter how much industry there is, they dispose of the maguey of the lands, there are no more people to scrape it, there is no longer any interest in making the drink.
Apan is known nationally for the cultivation of maguey and pulque, but only fame and prestige remain.
The maguey has become extinct because people have finished it. In the lands that they have to cultivate, they preferred to pluck maguey bushes, in order to grow corn, barley, wheat and oats”.