Huasteca Canyon, Monterrey
Cañón de la Huasteca is an incredible place, it is only 10km from Monterry City centre with spectacular rock formations. It is a popular recreation area with cyclists, climbers and other outdoor pursuits actively enjoyed here.
This site is now almost completely dry. The only pools of water that exist here now are either temporary or cause by leaks from irrigation systems.
This was the home of the Monterry Platy, Xiphophorus couchianus, this species is now extinct in the wild, and its population in captivity is tiny.
The previous water line can be seen very clearly in the pictures below.
- Old, Water Line Huasteca Canyon . Photo by Paddy Davies
- Old Water Line. Photo by Paddy Davies
There is some water still in the canyon, but this is either temporary, or caused by leaks near pumping stations used for irrigation. The species found in these waters are predominately introduced an not native to this area of Mexico.
Species found here include: Tilapia sp and Poeciliopsis senilis.
- Huasteca Canyon Monterrey. Photo by Paddy Davies
- Huasteca Canyon Monterrey. Photo by Paddy Davies
- Huasteca Canyon Monterrey. Photo by Paddy Davies 2016
- Huasteca Canyon Monterrey. Photo by Paddy Davies 2016
- Huasteca Canyon Monterrey. Photo by Paddy Davies 2016
- Huasteca Canyon Monterrey. Photo by Paddy Davies 2016
- Temporary stream Monterrey. Photo by Paddy Davies 2016
- Fish in a concrete pumping station. Photo by Paddy Davies 2016
If you can provide photographs of X,couchianus that we could use for this article, please contact me.