The Sierra Madre Occidental is a major mountain range system which runs northwest–southeast through northwestern and western Mexico, and along the Gulf of California. The Sierra Madre is part of the A
Río Grande de Santiago winding through the Sierra Madre Occidental, forming part of the border between Nayarit and Jalisco.
A Nyugati Sierra Madre elhelyezkedése
Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico
The Sierra Madre Occidental pine–oak forests are a Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion of the Sierra Madre Occidental range from the southwest USA region to the western part of Mexico. The
Pine-oak forest in the valley of the San Ignacio River near Guajurana, Chihuahua.
Apache pine (Pinus engelmannii) in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona
The tufted jay (Cyanocorax dickeyi) is endemic to the ecoregion.