Mexican Flora and Fauna Protection Areas (Áreas de Protección de Flora y Fauna in Spanish) comprise 226 protected natural areas of Mexico administrated by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, or CONANP), an agency of the federal government.
They are areas established to conform to the regulations provided by the LGEEPA and other applicable laws on places that contain habitats for which their existence depends on their preservation, transformation, and support of the species of flora and fauna.
List of Mexican Flora and Fauna Protection Areas
Baja California Valle de los Cirios Islas del Golfo de California (Islands of the Gulf of California) (also in Baja California Sur, Sonora, and Sinaloa)
Baja California Sur Balandra Cabo San Lucas
Campeche Laguna de Términos
Chiapas Cascada de Agua Azul Chan-Kin Metzabok Nahá
Chihuahua Campo Verde Cañón de Santa Elena Cerro Mohinora Médanos de Samalayuca Papigochic Tutuaca
Coahuila Cuatrociénegas Maderas del Carmen Ocampo
Colima El Jabalí
Jalisco La Primavera Sierra de Quila
Estado de México Ciénegas del Lerma Nevado de Toluca
Michoacán Pico de Tancítaro
Morelos Corredor Biológico Chichinautzin (also in Distrito Federal)
Oaxaca Boquerón de Tonalá
Quintana Roo Bala'an Ka'ax Cozumel Manglares de Nichupté Uaymil Yum Balam
San Luis Potosí Sierra La Mojonera Sierra de Álvarez
Sinaloa Meseta de Cacaxtla
Sonora Sierra de Álamos-Río Cuchujaqui Bavispe
Tabasco Cañón del Usumacinta
Tamaulipas Laguna Madre and Río Bravo Delta Sierra de Tamaulipas
Veracruz Sistema Arrecifal Lobos-Tuxpan
Yucatán Otoch Ma´Ax Yetel Kooh (also in Quintana Roo)
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