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Mexico: Earth's Festival of Life Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2017 - 2017
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.
Episode 2
Forests of the Maya
59 mins
The large peninsula of Yucatan in south(east)ern Mexico has its own nature and history. Its forest grows on limestone, which drains the rains, but lots of large, deep natural cavities, called cenotes, dating from the super-size meteor whose crash on Yucatan wiped out the dinosaurs, and some underground rivers connection those, still being mapped by speleologists and satellite pictures, 'irrigate' a luscious vegetation, feeding an exuberant fauna, starring jaguars, the colourful quetzal bird and noisy monkeys. The spending civilization of many Maya city state kingdoms crushed down due to arid climate change.
Episode 3
Burning North
59 mins
Northern Mexico is dominated by two great deserts, the Sonoran and the Chihuahuan. This edition unravels the forces that have created this arid world and how the wildlife has adapted to living here.
