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Sotavento Region
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<h2 id="geography">Geography</h2> <p>Sotavento Region lies on the southern <a href="/facts/Gulf_Coastal_Plain/AFF0n1jj">Gulf Coastal Plain</a>. <i>Sotavento</i> means leeward, and the region lies in the rain shadow of the coastal <a href="/facts/Sierra_de_Chiconquiaco/44ctdEYz">Sierra de Chiconquiaco</a>, which makes it drier than the rest of Veracruz' coastal lowlands to the north and south. The <a href="/facts/Veracruz_dry_forests/VJQ8olK2">Veracruz dry forests</a> ecoregion covers much of the region.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>It is bounded on the northeast by the <a href="/facts/Gulf_of_Mexico/bGE5s57G">Gulf of Mexico</a>, on the east and south by <a href="/facts/Papaloapan_Region_(Veracruz)/TwQKa5Vr">Papaloapan Region</a>, on the west by <a href="/facts/Mountains_Region/07mNsVJa">Mountains Region</a>, and on the north by <a href="/facts/Capital_Region%2c_Veracruz/MaceSpcW">Capital Region</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave: Grado de marginación por municipio, 2005" (PDF). Conapo. Retrieved 31 January 2019. <a href="http://www.conapo.gob.mx/work/models/CONAPO/indices_margina/margina2005/anexoB/mapas/b_3000.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.conapo.gob.mx/work/models/CONAPO/indices_margina/margina2005/anexoB/mapas/b_3000.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>López-Balderas, Nayali (7 September 2014). "Seroprevalence of hepatitis viruses and risk factors in blood donors of Veracruz, Mexico". The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries. 9 (3): 274–282. doi:10.3855/jidc.4812. S2CID 2141145. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3855%2Fjidc.4812" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.3855%2Fjidc.4812</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"Veracruz dry forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2010-11-19. <a href="https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/nt0233" target="_blank">https://www.worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/nt0233</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave: Grado de marginación por municipio, 2005" (PDF). Conapo. Retrieved 31 January 2019. <a href="http://www.conapo.gob.mx/work/models/CONAPO/indices_margina/margina2005/anexoB/mapas/b_3000.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.conapo.gob.mx/work/models/CONAPO/indices_margina/margina2005/anexoB/mapas/b_3000.pdf</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>