ANTIPLANO

 

In the altiplano region highlights the Cerro Colorado

It is located northeast of the city of Tehuacán and where populations are:

 

o   Tepanco

 

o   Santiago Miahuatlan

 

o   Chapulco

 

 

Climate

semi-warm climate with summer rains and low throughout the year.

semi-warm dry climate with summer rains and low throughout the year. We present the first foothills of the Sierra de Zapotitlán west.

 

Flora

Presented in corresponding to the western foothills of the Sierra de Zongolica chaparral vegetation associated with secondary, desert scrub trees and associated rosetófilos thornless bush, south and east.

The rest of the municipality, in the higher areas of the Sierra de Zongolica, must have been covered with pine and oak forests, forest associations they have begun to be destroyed to open new farmland.

Fauna

 

There are deer, rabbits, hares, squirrels, armadillos, raccoons, opossums fox, and coyote, water snakes, rattlesnakes, coral snake, and mazacuata lever. Besides different kinds of birds like hawks, Tehuacanera dove, sparrow, swallow, Garza and owl.