The Madre de Deus Church.
Right before the Sierra Madre,
The Church of the Madre Deus Convent.
The Sierra Madre mountains, which consist of several smaller ranges,
run from northern Mesoamerica south through Costa Rica.
In the past few years,
Maija has focused on consulting and botanical research for Madre Labs and iHerb.
Pedro II went back to the Poor Clares of the Madre de Deus Monastery
and ordered him to repair almost all over again.
Don Betto, who lives in the Sierra Madre del Sur,
told us about his trips to southern Mexico in the 1950s and 1960s.
In central and southern Mexico, a portion of the Sierra Madre chain is known as the Eje Volcánico Transversal,
or the Trans-Mexican volcanic belt.
There are 83 inactive and active volcanoes within the Sierra Madre range, including 11 in Mexico,
37 in Guatemala, 23 in El Salvador, 25 in Nicaragua, and 3 in northwestern Costa Rica.
For a more complete view, look for one of the intersections where the parade turns: from Orange Grove onto Colorado,
from Colorado onto Sierra Madre, or where Sierra Madre curves as it heads northeast.