Northern Mexico by Drone

Check out this outstanding drone video of Monterrey, Mexico, compliments of  contributor thedroneexperience.  The capital of the northeastern city of Nueva Leon, Monterrey is the core of the second-largest metropolitan area in the country after Greater Mexico City.  A major industrial center and one of Mexico's wealthiest cities, Monterrey lies at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental.  The video features footage of sites such as the Monterrey Cathedral and the under-construction Torres Obispado, soon to be Mexico's tallest skyscraper.

Check out this stunning aerial tour of  Coahuila, Mexico.  One of the 31 states which make up the Mexican federation, Coahuila is located near the northeastern corner of the country.  With a long border with the US state of Texas, Coahuila is largely covered by the great Chihuahuan Desert, the third-largest desert in the Western Hemisphere, which covers portions of northern Mexico and the southern USA.  The video does a marvelous job of showing the stunning landscapes of one of the least densely populated Mexican states.  

Check out this fantastic drone footage collection from the mountains of northeastern Mexico, compliments of AirVuz contributor and pilot k2team.mty.  The mountains here are part of the Sierra Madre Oriental, a range which runs down the eastern side of the country, roughly parallel to the Sierra Madre Occidental on the western side.  Extending from the USA border to the great Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, the peaks of the Sierra Madre Orientals run as high as 3.7k meters above sea level or around 12.1k ft.  

Copper Canyon is one of the great natural treasures of Mexico. Situated in the northwestern state of Chihuahua, it's actually a system of six connected canyons formed by six different rivers which drain the nearby mountains into the Gulf of California.  The main canyon is traversed by a railroad, construction of which took over four decades due to the challenging conditions.  Award-winning contributor PostandFly created this incredible drone video of the magnificent canyon and its train line.

Contributor Postandfly gives us this drone's eye view of some of the most unusual rock formations on the planet.  It's called the Valley of the Monks, and it's in the Chihuahuan Desert, in the Mexican state of the same name.  The extreme conditions of the area turned what would have been ordinary looking sedimentary rocks into fantastically shaped formations.  The valley, which is also called the Valley of the Gods, is one of the most popular outdoor tourist attractions in northern Mexico.  

Award-winning contributor Postandfly created this beautiful aerial video of the "ghost town" of Real de Catorce, once one of the great mining towns of Central Mexico.  Situated in the state of San Luis Potosi, it's roughly in the middle of the great triangle formed by Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara.  The town was founded as a result of a large nearby silver discovery in the late 18th century, and at its height, it was one of the biggest sources for the highly silver-dependent Spanish Empire.  

Multiple Drone Video of the Week Winner Postandfly brings us this stunning drone video from the desert of northern Mexico.  The video was filmed near the town of Cuatro Ciénegas, which is located in the Chihuahuan Desert, roughly in the middle of the state of Coahuila.  The area is known for its wetlands, which you'll see throughout the video.  The Chihuahuan Desert covers much of the area along either side of the US/Mexican border.  The video was filmed with a DJI Mavic 3 Cine as well as a Avata first person view (FPV) drone.  

Award-winning content creator and pilot Postandfly used a DJI Mini 2 drone to create this fantastic drone video of the Tamul waterfall in central Mexico.  The great falls are situated near Ciudad Valles in the state of San Luis Potosí, roughly midway between Mexico City and Monterrey.  It's an extremely wide plunge-type waterfall formed by the convergence of the  Gallinas and Santa Maria Rivers into the Tampaon River.  The falls has a drop of just over 100 meters (340 ft.) and is known for its brilliant torquoise waters.

Check out this drone video from the mountains of north central Mexico, compliments of new AirVuz contributor Fotografía aérea.  It was filmed over Bufa Hill, which lies just east of the city of Zacatecas, the capital of its namesake state.  The summit of the hill lies about 2.6k meters above sea level or around 8.5k ft.  Like much of the region, the history of this area is closely tied to mining; the search for precious metals brought the Spanish conquerors here beginning in the mid-16th century.  

Contributor and drone pilot K2team.mty put together this beautiful drone video from the mountains of northeastern Mexico.  Pico Cuauhtemoc is the highest peak in the Cerro de las Mitras masif, in the state of Nuevo León.  Its peak elevation is around 2.05k meters or about 6.7k ft. above sea level.  The Mitras are part of the range known as the Sierra Madres Oriental.  These mountains runs down the eastern side of Mexico, parallel to the Sierra Madres Occidental which runs down the country's western side. 

If you want to see an example of the cinematic power of drones to create people-focused content in scenic environments, check out this drone video by OOO Photography.  He filmed a ballet dancer in a park in the mountains of northern Mexico.  The setting is the La Huasteca climbing park outside of Monterrey, in the state of Nueva Leon.  The most amazing footage captures the dancer on a small point at the edge of a rock ledge set against the backdrop of the magnificent Sierra Madre Mountains.

Award-winning contributor Postandfly created this epic drone video of one of the largest waterfalls in Mexico.  Basaseachic Falls (Cascada de Basaseachi) is situated in the north-central part of the country, in the state of Chihuahua.  It's a plunge waterfall formed by two separate rivers, the Arroyo del Durazno and the Arroyo de Basaseachic.  With a total drop of 246 meters (807 ft.), it's the second-largest waterfall in the country, after Cascada de Piedra Volada, which is also located in Chihuahua.

The Chihuahuan Desert is one of the 15 largest in the world by area.  It's considered to be of the semi-tropical variety, and it covers over 360k square km (about 140k square mi) in the Southwestern USA and northern Mexico.  The Mexican part of the desert covers a large part of Chihuahua and four other states, and on the USA side it covers much of West Texas as well as portions of New Mexico and Arizona.  In this video by k2team.mty, you'll get a bird's eye view of this magnificent desert in the state of Nueva Leon.  

For a first upload to AirVuz, brand-new contributor and pilot jorgechavz brings us this excellent drone video of the lovely seaside community of San Carlos, Mexico.  It's part of the port city of Guaymas on the eastern coast of the Sea of Cortez (the Gulf of California in American parlance), in the northern state of Sonora.  San Carlos is a roughly six hour drive south of the US border, corresponding roughly to the midway point of the Baja Peninsula on the opposite side of the Sea of Cortez.  

AirVuz contributor k2team.mty brings us this outstanding drone video from the mountains of Northern Mexico.  The video was filmed over Cumbres de Monterrey National Park, which straddles the states of Nuevo León and Coahuila, near the city of Monterrey.  The mountains here are part of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the eastern of the two great systems which run on a roughly northwest-to-souteast axis through much of Mexico (the western range being the Sierra Madre Occidental, which is separated from the eastern range by the Mexican Plateau).  

Here's an amazing drone video from the mountains near the Mexican city of Monterrey, compliments of contributor k2team.mty.  Located in the state of Nueva Leon, the mountains here form part of the Sierra Madre Oriental.  This range runs roughly diagonally down the eastern part of Mexico, approximately in parallel with the Sierra Madre Occidental chain which runs down the country's western side.  The city of Monterrey, Mexico's third-largest, lies in a valley created by these mountains.  

If you think that deserts and wetlands are mutually exclusive, you should check out this drone video from the Mexican state of Coahuila by k2team.mty.  It was filmed in the Cuatro Ciénegas Biosphere Reserve, a wetland area within the vast Chihuahuan desert that covers much of northern Mexico and parts of the Southwestern USA and west Texas.  Home to over 150 endemic species of flora and fauna, the reserve's lifeforms and their adaptation to this unique environment are being studied to assess the possibility of life on Mars.  

Check out this stunning drone video of an oasis of a desert in northern Mexico, compliments of contributor Morelia Films.  It was filmed in the area around the town of Cuatro Cienegas, which lies in the middle of the state of Coahuila.  Situated in the middle of the great Chihuahuan Desert, the area's wetlands created by its natural springs are so biodiverse that they have been used to study the possibility of life on Mars.  The video features footage both from the town and its surrounding natural treasures. 

Thedronexperience created this beautiful drone video of the vineyards of Casa Madero. Recognized as one of the best winegrowing areas in Mexico, this beautiful scenery is located in the heart of Parras, a small city in north central Mexico which is one of the major wine growing areas of the country.  It is situated in the southern part the border state of Coahuila.  Parras Coahuila has now earned a place in literature: it was the setting for All the Pretty Horses (1992), Cormac McCarthy's first novel.

Monterrey is the center of the third largest metropolitan area in Mexico (after Mexico City and Guadalajara), and its largest city in the northern part of the country.  It lies in the state of Nuevo Leon, of which it is the administrative capital.  Like most of the cities in the "inverted triangle" of Central Mexico, it is in a mountain valley, in this case of the Sierra Madre Mountains.  Contributor Droneexperience, one of the top drone piloting companies in Mexico, created this amazing aerial tour of their hometown.  

Award-winning contributor and pilot Postandfly used the new DJI first person view (FPV) drone to create this unique perspective of a beautiful spot in Northern Mexico.  The video was filmed over the Jardín Escultórico Edward James (Las Pozas), a group of sculptures, man-made waterfalls, and pools in the rainforests near the town of Xilitla, in the state of San Luis Potosí.  Like other experienced aerial cinematographers, Postandfly has ventured into the world of FPV flight, which opens up new vistas in content creation.