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The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. It occupies much of far West Texas , the middle to lower Rio Grande Valley and the lower Pecos Valley in New Mexico , and a portion of southeastern Arizona , as ...
English: Locator map of the Chihuahuan Desert ecoregion, in south-central North America. Located within the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora , and U.S. states of New Mexico , Arizona , and Texas .
Map of the Chihuahuan Desert, as a satellite image from NASA, with the border between the US and Mexico shown in black. The area is protected by several reserves in both countries. The protected area is in the Chihuahuan desert ecoregion. It includes a number of mountain ranges separated by valleys and undulating plains.
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km 2 ... Chihuahuan Desert: Subtropical: 453,248 [5]
The Nama Karoo of Namibia has the world's richest desert fauna. [8] The Chihuahuan desert and Central Mexican matorral are the richest deserts in the Neotropics. [9] The Carnarvon xeric shrublands of Australia are a regional center for endemism. [1] The Sonoran and Baja deserts of Mexico are unusual desert communities dominated by giant ...
But alfalfa crops and other agricultural activities are also sapping dry the ancient oasis of Cuatro Cienegas, the most important wetland in the Chihuahuan Desert and a geological anomaly that ...
The ecoregion consists of a complex of high-elevation pine–oak forests surrounded at lower elevations by deserts and xeric shrublands and tropical dry forests, including the Sonoran Desert to the northwest, the Chihuahuan Desert to the northeast and east in Arizona, the Meseta Central matorral and Central Mexican matorral to the southeast ...
The largest, highest and coldest is the Great Basin Desert in the north. In the South are the Sonoran Desert to the West and the Chihuahuan... 5 Up-and-Coming Desert Retirement Towns