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From: Natural History | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

A coastal wetland nourishes birds, and the endangered mangroves, American crocodile.

On the west coast of Mexico near the town of San Blas is a limestone spring called La Tobara (or La Tovara), part of an inviting system of lagoons, canals, and navigable tidelands. These wetlands are about a ninety-minute drive from Tepic, the state capital of Nayarit, but I traveled there from the coastal town of Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, where I was staying. Heading north on Mexico's Highway 200, I soon crossed from the Central into the Mountain time zone. The route followed the coastal plainpast crops of ...

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