The land of the Lake Texcoco Ecological Reserve is located right after the line that separates Mexico City from the State of Mexico, to the northeast. Upon crossing this dividing line, many borders are simultaneously crossed. You go over a political division between city and non-city, in which all traces of urbanization disappear abruptly. There is also the crossing of a geographical division between city and countryside, the urban and the rural: a saline country of scarce vegetation, a flat, open plateau, alien to the intricate, sunken topography of Mexico City. A climate border is also crossed, perhaps the most surprising, as it is felt by one’s body: as one goes from the city to the state, temperature rises a couple of degrees, pollution decreases, and the air dries up noticeably and starts smelling of salt. [...]
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