Geography
Northeastern Mexico, contains a wide variety of landscapes, ranging from pine and oak tree forests to prairie, snow covered mountains in winter to diverse types of deserts. The region, is predominantly mountainous. The Sierra Madre Oriental, sometimes considered an extension of the Rocky Mountains, is one of the largest mountain ranges in Mexico. It runs from Northwest of Coahuila to southeast through a great part of Nuevo León and to a lesser extent Tamaulipas.
The climate is diverse, it varies from region to region, from arid and semi-arid (BS) and (BSh), subtropical (AC) and temperate (CW) and (CeW). Snowfall is common in highlands of Sierra Madre Oriental, especially in the municipalities of Arteaga, Coahuila and Santiago, Galeana and Aramberri in Nuevo León.
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