page_title: Tequixquiac
section_title: Flora and fauna
hierarchical_section_title: Tequixquiac / Geography / Flora and fauna
caption_attribution_description: Español: Árbol de Tejocote en Cerro Mesa Ahumada, Tequixquiac, México.
context_page_description: Tequixquiac is a municipality located in the Zumpango Region of the State of Mexico in Mexico. The municipality is located 84 kilometres north of Mexico City within the valley that connects the Valley of Mexico with the Mezquital Valley. The name comes from Nahuatl and means "place of tequesquite waters". The municipal seat is the town of Santiago Tequixquiac, although both the town and municipality are commonly referred to as simply "Tequixquiac".
  The municipality is known as the "cradle of prehistoric art in the Americas" because of the sacrum bone and other artifacts found in the region.
context_section_description: There is a diversity in plants and animals of temperate climate (Mexico Valley) and semi-arid climate (Mezquital Valley).
  Plants native to the municipality include:
  maguey (agave americana)
  cardón or cholla (cylindropuntia imbricata)
  nopal or prickly pear (opuntia ficus-indica)
  viznaga or golden barrel (echinocactus)
  órgano or fencepost cactus (pachycereus marginatus)
  garambullo or billberry cactus (myrtillocactus geometrizans)
  palo dulce (eysenhardtia polystachya)
  mesquite (prosopis juliflora)
  ahuehuete (taxodium mucronatum)
  encino or netleaf oak (quercus rugosa)
  tepozán (buddleja cordata)
  huizache (vachellia farnesiana)
  cedro or white cedar (cupressus lusitanica)
  sause or willow (salix)
  xaixne or creosote bush (larrea tridentata)
  dingandán or pepicha (porophyllum linaria)
  depe or creeping false holly (Jaltomata procumbens)
  tule (schoenoplectus acutus)
  carrizo (phragmites communis)
  tejocote (crataegus mexicana)
  capulin (prunus serotina)
  white sapote (casimiroa edulis)
  Native animals include: cacomistle, skunk, gopher, Virginia opossum, rabbit, Mexican gray squirrel, turkey, colibri, turkey vulture, northern mockingbird, rattlesnake, pine snake, xincoyote, red warbler, rufous-crowned sparrow, lesser roadrunner, great horned owl, axolotl, frog, toad, red ant, bee, and others.
  In prehistoric times, the area was populated by large mammals such as glyptodonts, mammoths, horses, and bison.
caption: Tejocote tree, a native plant on Mesa Ahumada
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