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Remote Places that Remain
Remote ...continued
- Large
zalates (ficus palmeri) flourish in canyon above San Sebastian,
1967.
After the güéribo, the zalate or wild fig is the second
largest plant in the central and southern parts of the peninsula.
These dissimilar species of trees share deep canyons at higher elevations
of the sierras from 27 degrees N. Lat. southward to the Cape.
- Great
Tinaja in Arroyo del Parral, 1971.
Some water sources, like this many-thousand gallon catchment, are
found in areas so inhospitable that they serve only as watering
places for passing riders or packtrains. In all the sierras of the
mid-peninsula, many tinajas such as this, called plunge pools by
physiographers, are scooped out of the fairly soft volcanic agglomerate
rock by the rush of waters following a summer storm.
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