The year with weak wave energy (top) clearly shows greater ozone loss, which
extends over a wider area, reaching farther past the edge of Antarctica and closer to the tip of South America.
Mexico City, with its population of 4,500,000, is a crowded, rambling metropolis that occupies a great part of the Valle Méjico, an open, flat
area some 50 miles
wide, surrounded by a crown of mountains that
extends up to 3,000 feet in the air
over the valley floor, itself some 7,500 feet above sea level.
Presiding
over the graceful gardens, Villa Kailasha's splendid living pavilion is so big that it provides a choice of three discrete sitting
areas before
extending onto a
wide, partially - sheltered stone terrace fringed by ponds.