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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.
The mean annual precipitation for the Chihuahuan Desert is 235 mm (9.3 in) with a range of approximately 150–400 mm (6–16 in), although it receives more precipitation than most other warm desert ecoregions. [3] Nearly two-thirds of the arid zone stations have annual totals between 225 and 275 mm (8.9 and 10.8 in). [8]
Website. nps.gov /bibe /. 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]
The Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens is a cultural history and natural history museum on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso in El Paso, Texas, United States.The museum was built in 1936 to commemorate the centenary of Texas independence, making it the oldest museum in El Paso.
Coordinates: 30.5404°N 103.8373°W. Chihuahuan Desert Nature Center and Botanical Gardens (507 acres) is a nonprofit nature center with botanical gardens on the grounds of the Chihuahuan Desert Research Institute, the parent organization. It is located off Texas State Highway 118 about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Fort Davis, Texas, United States.
Centris atripes. Chestnut-collared longspur. Chihuahua chub. Chihuahua shiner. Chihuahuan raven. Chihuahuan spotted whiptail. Clark's nutcracker. Comanche Springs pupfish. Crissal thrasher.
It is one of three biosphere reserves representing the Chihuahuan Desert (along with Big Bend Biosphere Reserve and National Park in western Texas and Jornada Biosphere Reserve in New Mexico). [2] The 342,388 hectares (1,321.97 sq mi) reserve is situated between the Neotropical and Nearctic biogeographic realms , in the Bolsón de Mapimí 1,150 ...
The Chihuahuan greater earless lizard (C. t. scitulus) occurs throughout much of the Chihuahuan Desert, including much of the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas, [21] the southern third of New Mexico (following the Pecos and Rio Grande river basins northward), [25] and southeastern Arizona (east of the Sonora Desert), following a zone of semi ...