The Transcontinental Volcanic Mountain range, also known as Eje Volcánico Transversal (Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt) and locally as the Sierra Nevada (Snow Mountain Range) is a volcanic belt that covers central-southern Mexico. Several of the highest peaks in this range have snow year round and are visible to many population centers in the area.

The Transcontinental Volcanic range spans Mexico from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico and rests on the southern edge of the North American continental plate. This 600 mile long mountain range is an east-west active continental volcanic arc.

For several million years, the subduction of the Rivera and Cocos continental plates beneath the North American plate has formed this mountain range creating many strato volcanoes, (commonly called Composite Volcanoes) many of which are cosidered Major Volcanos.

Popocatepetl (17,802 feet)

Iztaccihuati (17,343 feet)

Nevado de Toulca (15,354)

Popocatepetl (17,802 feet)

Pico de Orizabe or Citlaltepetl (18,701 feet)

Sierra Negra (15,030 feet)

Matlalcueitl (14,636 feet)

Popocatepetl (17,802 feet)

Pico de Orizabe or Citlaltepetl (18,701 feet)

Cofre de Perote (14,049 feet)

Vulcan de San Martin (5,511 feet)

Matlalcueitl (14,636 feet)

Nevado de Colima (14,306 feet)

Volcan de Colima (12,533 feet)

Paricutin (9,101 feet)

Ceboruco (7,480 feet)

El Chichon (3,953 feet)

Tres Virgenes, south peak (6,365 feet)

Pinacate Peaks (3,904)

El Socorro (3,445 feet)

Volcan Barcena (1.089 feet)

However, during my journey on in 2010, I was to cross this mountain range on my way south to the Pacific coast of Mexico. The photo story of this journey on begins by selecting the links in the next section drectly below, but to see many more photos and read the complete journal entries of this journey on, please Come Join the Journey in Quire Five, Chapter Five, The Quest for the Mariposa. There you will find that my Path in Mexico is divided into seven Parts.