This DEA Map Shows Just How Influential El Chapo & His Cartel Are in the U.S. [Photo]

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is known as a major drug kingpin in Mexico, but this map from the U.S Drug Enforcement Agency reveals just how far El Chapo's reach really is.

Before getting to the map, take a moment to register that El Chapo has escaped a maximum-security prison twice. To be able to do that, one must have major pull.

El Chapo's most recent escape was through a hole in a shower wall in the Altiplano Prison in Mexico this summer. The Mexican government and President Enrique Peña Nieto's administration was without a doubt embarrassed by the escape.

According to the DEA's map below, President Nieto definitely has his hands full.  The map details the power of El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel in the United States. The dark and light orange areas, basically all of the map, is where the Sinaloa Cartel is the dominant Mexican cartel "controlling the illegal trade."

As Huffington Post reports, the RAND Corporation estimated that Mexican marijuana accounted for a number "between 40 to 67 percent of all the weed smoked in the United States in 2008. Today, that figure has almost certainly declined with the legalization of medical or recreational marijuana in several states, but Mexican cartels remain an important distributor in the United States."

Moreover, as Huffington Post further details, Mexican cartels have come to dominate cocaine distribution in the U.S. and South America. "A 2014 New Yorker article estimated that Guzmán's Sinaloa cartel brought in as much as half of the illegal drugs imported to the United States."

As the DEA told Huffington Post, "'El Chapo' Guzmán is without a doubt one of, if not the most, dangerous men in the world. "He's responsible for the death of thousands of Mexican citizens and all the violence that goes along with drug trafficking."

Despite, a close call with authorities and even sustaining an injury, El Chapo is still "free." Mexican authorities believe the drug lord is currently laying-low in the mountains of the states of Sinaloa or Durango. At this time, the DEA has issued a $5 million reward for any information that could lead to his capture.