Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

Categories: Ecology | North America

Photographer Matt Black visited Mishtek in July 2011. The photos taken there are part of an ongoing long-term photo project telling about the region and its people. This time Black focused his attention on agriculture and its problems associated with severe soil erosion.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

Here's what he writes:

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

1. Collapsed rocks are pouring towards the village.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

2. Houses are gradually falling through.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

3. Locals carry things from destroyed houses in the village.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

4. Cleaning in a cornfield affected by a landslide.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

5. People carry the surviving wheat crop from a field damaged by a landslide.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

6. A boy on the ruins of his house.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

7. Temporary shelter for the family.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

8. A boy in his family's house.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

9. Local family.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

10. People are resting near their car next to the road.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

11. Collecting materials from a destroyed house.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

12. The boy goes home on the crumbling slope.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

13. Shepherd dog on a hill near the city.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

14. Fragments of rocks on an eroded field.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

15. A woman inspects her damaged cornfield.

Mexican Mixteca is the most eroded place on Earth

16. Harvesting wheat in a cracked field.

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