Mexican Resources: A Guide to and Through Mexico (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The territory of the Mexican Republic extends from north latitude 15° to and from 12° 18' 46 of east longitude, to 18° 6' 15 of west longitude of the meri dian of the City of Mexico, the capital; this being in west longitude from Green wich, 99° 5' 25. The territory contiguous on the north belongs to the United States, and that on the south. To Guatemala, while the Gulf of Mexico bathes its eastern shores, and the Pacific its western, giving to it a coast-line of nearly miles. Within the above limits is inclosed a superficial area of square kilometres, or square miles. Its greatest length, along the axis of the territory, mainly represented by the gigantic dorsal ridge of the Sierra Madre, is miles, in a straight line from the northwestern extremity of Lower California to the southern border of Chiapas. Its maximum breadth, from east to west, on the line of north latitude is about 750 miles, and its minimum, at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, 140 miles.

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