Mountains and the Coastal Plain

Mountains and the Coastal Plain
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Traveling west towards Puerto Vallarta and the Bay of Banderas, the mountains give way to the coastal plain which is a very fertile farming area irrigated by several rivers which originate in the Sierra Madre Mountains. The river in this photo is the Rio Ameca which is the state boundary line between the state of Nayarit to the North and the state of Jalisco to the south. Farming here is on a more modern footing, using tractors to plant corn and tobacco. You can still often see the vaqueros (cowboys) on horseback herding the cattle.