It occupies the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca in the state of Oaxaca, and is one of a chain of pine-oak forest ecoregions extending along the American Cordillera from Arizona and Baja California in the north to Nicaragua in the south.
It occupies the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca, which lies mostly within the state of Oaxaca, extending north into Puebla and Veracruz states. It is one of a chain of pine-oak forest ecoregions extending along the American Cordillera from Arizona and Baja California in the north to Nicaragua in the south.