Mexico: Earth's Festival of Life

Episode 1

Mountain Worlds

59 mins

Mexico is a vast country, between the US in North America and Guatemala in Central America. It is dominated by the Sierra Madre, minor mountains rages, hills and forests, mostly fertile due to volcanic activity. Apart from the vast capital metropolis, must us rural with towns and farmers, where especially the 68 native peoples (from the once imperial Aztec to tiny tribes) live in relative harmony with nature. Colonial-Catholic and native traditions exists alongside a varied fauna and flora, from (once nearly extinct) black bears to orchids and specialized bees), agriculture (including blue agave for tequila) ad migrating visitors, like hibernating monarch butterflies.