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Protected. 35,905 km 2 (13,863 sq mi) (7%) [1] 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 ...
The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest hot desert in North America, located in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Its total area is 140,000 sq mi (360,000 km 2). 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.
Big Bend National Park. Big Bend National Park is a national park of the United States located in West Texas, bordering Mexico. The park has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, [3] and was named after a large bend in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo. [4]
5,017 (in 2022) [1] Governing body. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. Devils River State Natural Area is a 37,000-acre (15,000 ha) section of three ecosystems, the Edwards Plateau, the Tamaulipan mezquital and the Chihuahuan Desert. It is located 66 miles (106 km) north of Del Rio, Val Verde County in the U.S. state of Texas. [2]
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Coordinates: 30.560°N 103.841°W. The Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute or CDRI, incorporated in December 1973, is an independent non-profit, scientific and educational organization conducting its operations as a multi-featured Nature Center and Botanical Gardens located on a 507-acre (2.05 km 2) tract in the foothills of the Davis Mountains.
Category. : Chihuahuan Desert. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chihuahuan Desert. The Chihuahuan Desert — a North American ecoregion of the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, located in northeastern Mexico and the Southwestern United States. In phytogeography, the Chihuahuan Desert is within the Madrean Region.
The Florida Mountains are a small 12-mile (19 km) long, [1] mountain range in New Mexico. The mountains lie in southern Luna County about 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Deming, and 20 miles (32 km) north of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico; the range lies in the north of the Chihuahuan Desert region, and extreme southwestern New Mexico.