When driving through southern Oaxaca on your way to Chiapas, you reach some parts where the road almost wants to touch the ocean. Hugging the turns and holding the steering wheel tightly, you really get to appreciate the landscape of southern Mexico.
Mexico's northern frontier is very dry and desert-like, its central plateau has many agricultural and mining centers, and its south is lush with jungles and greenery.
The Pacific Ocean really does a number on you when you witness its rich blue hues, especially when you look at it from this angle, the place where Mexico's Tehuantepec Isthmus swerves north, making this area the closest place in Mexico where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are from each other. This region was once a contender for what is now known as the Panama Canal.
The people of the Tehuantepec isthmus are very conscious of their magical geography, a thin strip of land connecting larger masses of land, as the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean eat away at its sides, wave by wave, day by day. Tehuantepec is an old nahuatl word that means "jaguar hill."
For more information about the Tehuantepec Effect, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isthmus_of_Tehuantepec
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