3.3.2. Anthropic Impacts

While the state of Veracruz is very densely populated, that is not the case of the study area [44]. The land use and vegetation for 2015 [47] are shown in Figure 11 at a 1:250,000 scale. The main land uses are agriculture and pasture. According to Ramírez Méndez [18], the natural landscape of La Mancha is fragmented due to anthropogenic activities related to agriculture, livestock, fishing, tourism and human development, which have mainly affected the low deciduous forest.
