wildlife

- Marine life is also varied. Whales, mackerel, sardine, barracuda, swordfish, shark and turtles are a few of the creatures which live in the surrounding seas. In winter thousands of gray whales migrate from the Bering Sea to Mexico's Baja Peninsula.

- On land animal life includes wolves, lynx, bears, jaguars, pumas, ocelots, tapirs, monkeys, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, iguanas and the axolotl.