Mexico's Main Physical Features
* The eastern, western and southern mountain ranges known as Sierra Madre Oriental, Sierra Madre Occidental and Sierra Madre del Sur, respectively.
* The Mexican Central Plateau or Mexican Altiplano, delimited by these three mountain ranges.
* The flat, triangular-shaped peninsula known as Yucatan peninsula, to the south bordering Guatemala and Belize.
* The Baja California peninsula, also known as Baja, is the long but thin land mass to the northwest, connected to the top of Mexico but separated from most of the mainland by the Gulf of California or Sea of Cortes.
* The Gulf of Mexico, located at the eastern side of Mexico from the Mexico-Texas border down to the Yucatan peninsula.
* The Chihuahuan and Sonoran deserts, spanning most of northwestern Mexico from the Baja California peninsula to the Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range.
* There are also several active and inactive volcanoes, such as the Popocatepetl, Iztaccihuatl, Paricutin, Chichon and Pico de Orizaba.
* There are many lakes and Rivers in Mexico. However, the Rio Grande or Rio Bravo del Norte which defines most of the US-Mexico border is the largest and most known; Lake Chapala in central-western Mexico is the largest lake.
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