Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve
The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve is in the Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca and a mixed world heritage site. It is a sprawling area of more than 490,000 hectares of dry, mountainous terrain where forests of tall cacti stand tall against the rocky terrain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: biosphere reserve in Mexico
- Also known as: “Tehuacan-Cuicatlan Biosphere Reserve”
Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve
- Category: biosphere reserve
- Location: Caltepec, Puebla, Central Mexico, Mexico, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محمية المحيطات تهواكان-كويكاتلان”
- Chinese: “特瓦坎·奎卡特兰生物圈保护区”
- Chinese: “特瓦坎·奎卡特蘭生物圈保護區”
- Croatian: “Rezervat biosfere Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Czech: “Biosférická rezervace Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- French: “Réserve de biosphère Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Georgian: “ტეუაკან-კუიკატლანის ბიოსფერული ნაკრძალი”
- German: “Biosphärenreservat Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Hebrew: “השמורה הביוספרית טוואקאן-קואיקטלאן”
- Hungarian: “Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Bioszféra-rezervátum”
- Italian: “Riserva della biosfera di Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Italian: “Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve”
- Japanese: “テワカン＝クイカトラン渓谷”
- Japanese: “テワカン＝クイカトラン生物圏保護区”
- Lithuanian: “Tehuakano–Kuikatlano biosferos rezervatas”
- Macedonian: “Биосферен резерват Техуакан-Куикатлан”
- Maltese: “Riżerva tal-Bijosfera ta‘ Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Maltese: “Riżerva tal-Bijosfera ta’ Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Persian: “ذخیرهگاه زیستکره تاهان-چیکتلان”
- Portuguese: “Reserva Biosférica Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Portuguese: “Vale Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Russian: “Теуакан-Куикатлан”
- Spanish: “Reserva de la biosfera Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Spanish: “Reserva de la Biosfera Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
- Tatar: “Теуакан-Куикатлан биосфера тыюлыгы”
- Turkish: “Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biyosfer Rezervi”
- Ukrainian: “Біосферний заповідник Теуакан-Куікатлан”
- Vietnamese: “Khu dự trữ sinh quyển Tehuacán-Cuicatlán”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.