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Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
The biosphere covers 56,259 hectares and is located in a rugged forested mountain range about 100 kilometers northwest of Mexico City. Every autumn, millions, even billions, of butterflies from all over North America return here to gather in small areas of the forest reserve, dyeing the trees orange and almost bending the branches under their collective weight. In the spring, the butterflies begin an eight-month migration all the way to eastern Canada and back, during which four consecutive generations of butterflies are born and die. How they find their way back to their overwintering sites remains a mystery.
Tyre
According to legend, purple dye was invented in Tyre. This great Phoenician city dominated the seas and founded prosperous colonies such as Cadiz and Carthage, but its historical importance gradually declined at the end of the Crusades. There are many important archaeological remains here, mainly from the Roman period.