#valley of mexico

[northameicanblog]

Teotihuacan, Mexico: Teotihuacan is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, which is located in the State of Mexico, 40 kilometers northeast of modern-day Mexico City. Teotihuacan is known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas, namely the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon. Wikipedia

[digitalfossils]

Teotihuacan on Flickr

I have been here. Strangest and best place I've ever seen.

[jadeseadragon]

Repost @geologywonders1

The Valley of Dreams, located in northwestern New Mexico, began to form about 70 million years ago.

[fizzytoo]

the next location on the sibling-bonding roadtrip takes us to an airbnb campsite in plumbite cove, copperdale!

[chiropteracupola]

"Are you finished with my portrait yet? Show me!" "Cipacton, I can't draw you if you keep moving!"

[newmexicophotographer]

taos ski valley, nm

[womblegrinch]

Eric Sloane (1905-1985) - Taos Canyon showers

Oil on board. 21.25 x 29.25 inches, 54 x 74.3 cm.

Estimate: US$8,000-12,000.

Sold Jackson Hole Art Auction, Jackson, Wyoming, 14 Sept 2024 for US$16,000 + B.P.

[thomaswaynewolf]

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[kitastra]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Alien Throne, Valley of Dreams, New Mexico

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“Something of our relationship to the earth is determined by the particular place we stand at a given time. If you stand still long enough to observe carefully the things around you, you will find beauty, and you will know wonder. If you see a leaf carried along on the flow of a river, you might ponder its journey. Where did it begin, and where will it end? What will be the story of its passage? You will discover a thousand ways in which the leaf is connected to the water, the banks, the near and farther distances, the sky and the sun. Your mind, your spirit will be nourished and grow. You will become one with what you see. Consider what is to be seen.” ― N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

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“When we dance the earth trembles. When our steps fall on the earth we feel the shudder of life beneath us, and the earth feels the beating of our hearts, and we become one with the earth. We shall not sever ourselves from the earth. We must chant our being, and we must dance in time with the rhythms of the earth. We must keep the earth.” ― N. Scott Momaday, Earth Keeper: Reflections on the American Land

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Moonset Night at the Valley of Eternity

This place is a part of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, a natural protected area in México, the photo shows a very special location, populated with dozens of millenary endemic plants known as 'Sotolines' (Beaucarnea gracilis) this plants are very long lived, the specimens in the photo can be more than two thousand years old.

Photographer: Luis Lyons

[redsamphoto]

Two photos from Southwest One on Redsam.com.

[weirdcreaturefeed]

Weird Creature of the Day: Axolotl

Starting off strong with one of the world's most special amphibians, Ambystoma mexicanum!

Axolotls are a freshwater amphibian species native to wetlands & lakes surrounding Mexico City. Spanish colonizers drained these lakes in their conquest of the Aztec Empire, and current agriculture practices and industrialization in the region have further harmed axolotl populations. In present day, axolotls are only found in Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco. Both lakes are historic sites of chinampa style farming developed by Aztec agricultural scientists! (Look it up! It's really cool!)

The name axolotl comes from the Nahuatl language, the main language spoken by indigenous communities in the Mexican Central Valley at the time of Spanish colonization. The species is named after the Aztec deity Xolotl.

The species is considered critically endangered and on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of threatened species. The wild population adds up to 1000 individuals at most. Check out conservation efforts here.

Unlike most amphibians, axolotls don't go through metamorphosis (ex., the way tadpoles lose their gills & turn into frogs). They instead go through neoteny, meaning they reach sexual maturity without gaining the ability to go on land. This is because their thyroid doesn't produce the hormone that would start this process (it can be artificially induced, but is not recommended for the survival of the animal).

The axolotl genome is roughly 10x the size of the human genome! They stay winning!

Axolotls can regenerate their limbs, gills, and even parts of their brains! For life! This uncanny healing mechanism has made them the focus of many scientific studies.

Axolotls are the only amphibian to have an entire Google Doogle interactive game centered around them! Axolotls are also featured on the current 50 peso banknote (with chinampas!). They are also in Minecraft apparently

The designs for the Pokemon Mudkip and Wooper are partially inspired by them!

[nickysfacts]

The conservation movement was born in loving memory of a good boy

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[wheresjonno2023-complete]

Is there a European Albuquerque because the only one i know of is in the southwest United States and nobody really goes there ????

Really? Because I always heard it was a magical, far away place, where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer and the towels are oh so fluffy!

Nah this is a joke about Bugs Bunny

https://youtu.be/aSMZnWIJRCg