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Excellent A4, 328-page, paperback, road atlas of Mexico with a comprehensive tourist guide to the country, street plans, motorway diagrams, and an extensive index of localities. The atlas begins with a 186-page guide, providing general advice for travellers, useful contact details for essential services, transport facilities and embassies, a list of national and regional festivities, and lists of attractions along six national tourist routes. Over 700 towns and places of interest are described and illustrated with street plans, maps of archaeological sites and colour photos. All the text is in English. The guide includes 70 pages of lists with recommended hotels (indicating category and number of rooms) and restaurants, arranged by state. Also included are maps showing national parks and protected areas, main tourist routes, local airfields, and a distance table.
The atlas section at 1:1,000,000 shows the road network from major highways to rural roads and dirt tracks. Railways lines and ferries connections are also marked. Other detail includes state boundaries, time zone lines, airports, maritime ports, archaeological and cave paintings sites and other places of interest. Relief is indicated by subtle hill shading, and further graphics show deserts, seasonal water features, swamps, flood zones, reefs and sand dunes. Latitude and longitude margin ticks are marked at 1º intervals.
Street plan at varying scales show 51 towns, indicating access routes and main streets and highlighting places of interest. 45 diagrams show route connections between main cities, showing toll booth and service stations with various facilities. The atlas also has an extensive index of 13,000 localities.
