Natural History
The upper flanks of the San Martin Tuxtla and Santa Marta volcanoes are covered with the neotropical Sierra de los Tuxtlas tropical rainforest ecoregion, of the Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests Biome. The lower portions are covered with stunted pastures and grasslands.
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