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39% [1] The Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the Southwestern United States (in Arizona and California). It is the hottest desert in both Mexico and the United States. [3]
The Sonoran Desert is a desert located in the Southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. It is the second largest hot desert in North America. Its total area is 120,000 sq mi (310,000 km 2). The Mojave Desert is the hottest desert in North America, located primarily in southeastern California and Southern Nevada.
Its great biological diversity can be attributed to the presence of five of the seven life zones and three of the four desert types in North America. [18] The five life zones represented are the Lower Sonoran, Upper Sonoran, Transition, Canadian, and Hudsonian. [18] This is equivalent to traveling from Mexico to Canada.
Sonoran Desert National Monument, sunset view Sonoran Desert National Monument is south of Goodyear and Buckeye and east of Gila Bend, Arizona.Created by Presidential proclamation on January 17, 2001, [2] the 496,400 acres (200,886 ha) [1] monument is managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.
It is in the Sonoran Desert in northwest Mexico, east of the Gulf of California, in the eastern part of the Gran Desierto de Altar, just south of the border with Arizona, United States and north of the city of Puerto Peñasco. It is one of the most significant visible landforms in North America seen from space.
Catalina Foothills is in the stunning Sonoran Desert, just north of Tucson. It is known for its art galleries and golf courses, sunsets, outdoor recreation, and the scenic Santa Catalina Mountains.
The Sonoran Desert itself is more than twice as extensive north-to-south, and about 450 miles (724 km) in width. Two species, desert ironwood [2] and the lesser long-nosed bat, have geographic ranges identical to the Sonoran Desert, and are indicator species of the Sonoran Desert region. The spring flowering of ironwood, and the bat species ...
America's four deserts touch nearly every state in the West. 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 ...