The region is physically diverse , featuring a number of highland areas , including the Sierra Madre de Chiapas and the Montañas Centrales ( Central Highlands ) , a southern littoral plain known as Soconusco and a central depression formed Coming_to_be by the drainage of the Grijalva River .

Weakening Cause_change_of_strength as it turned Motion to the northeast , the hurricane Catastrophe made landfall near San Blas , Nayarit as a Category 4 hurricane Catastrophe , with sustained winds of 140 mph ( 220 km/h ) , before dissipating Dispersal on October 26 over the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains .

After causing Causation heavy rains and killing Killing four individuals in Sonora , the storm dissipated Dispersal over the Sierra Madre Occidental and its remnants went on to cause Causation flooding in New Mexico and Texas .

Barbara then moved Motion across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and dissipated Dispersal within the mountainous terrain of Sierra Madre de Chiapas on May 30 .

By 1820 , the few rebel groups survived most notably in the Sierra Madre del Sur and Veracruz .