The Central Mexican Plateau, also known as the Mexican Altiplano, is a large arid-to-semiarid plateau occupying much of northern and central Mexico. Averaging 1,825 m above sea level, it extends from
A view of the Mexican Plateau near San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Mesa del Norte is part of the extreme northern part of the Mexican Plateau.
The Central Mexican matorral is an ecoregion of the deserts and xeric shrublands biome of central Mexico: the southernmost ecoregion of the Nearctic realm.