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  2. Deserts of California - Wikipedia

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    There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. [5]: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on the northwest, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains on the south, and extends eastward to California's borders with Arizona and Nevada; it also forms portions of northwest Arizona.

  3. List of North American deserts - Wikipedia

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    The Mojave Desert is the hottest desert in North America, located primarily in southeastern California and Southern Nevada. Its total area is 22,000 sq mi (57,000 km 2 ). The largest cold desert is the Great Basin Desert , which encompasses much of the northern Basin and Range Province , north of the Mojave Desert.

  4. List of California desert topics - Wikipedia

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    The deserts contain many national, state, county, municipal, and conservation foundation managed parks, recreation and scenic areas, wildlife preserves and nature reserves, and wilderness areas. Parks

  5. Category:Deserts of California - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Deserts of California" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  6. Ecology of California - Wikipedia

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    California has two high deserts: the Mojave Desert and the Great Basin Desert. The Mojave Desert ecoregion is marked by the presence of Joshua trees. [3] The dry cold Great Basin desert of California consists of the Owens Valley, and is classified into Great Basin shrub steppe by the WWF, [4] and into the Central Basin and Range ecoregion by ...

  7. List of regions of California - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of regions of California, ... Wine Country. Napa Valley; ... Mojave Desert. Death Valley; High Desert.

  8. Mojave Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Mojave Desert is a desert bordered to the west by the Sierra Nevada mountain range and the California montane chaparral and woodlands, and to the south and east by the Sonoran Desert. The boundaries to the east of the Mojave Desert are less distinctive than the other boundaries because there is no presence of an indicator species, such as ...

  9. List of deserts - Wikipedia

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    The Sahara is the largest hot desert in the world. This is a list of deserts sorted by the region of the world in ... and this word may even feature in their names ...