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The Lower Colorado River Valley has unique plant communities because it is the most arid part of the desert and it has the highest temperatures, in excess of 120 °F (49 °C) during the summer. The low humidity means that most plants must have mechanisms that deal with severe water loss through evaporation.
This is a List of mountain ranges of the Lower Colorado River Valley, located in the western part of the southwestern United States; the eastern region would be the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico. This doubled list has the North–South running Colorado River sectioned into the west side of the river vs. the east side.
hiking and biking path George S. Mickelson Trail: 108.8 175 South Dakota: within the Black Hills: Gerard Hiking Trail: 36 58 Pennsylvania: Loop trail in Oil Creek State Park. Gerry Connolly Cross County Trail: 40.5 65 Fairfax County, Virginia: Potomac River, Great Falls, Virginia: Occoquan River, Lorton, Virginia
The Mecca Hills are in the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert, adjacent to the Lower Colorado River Valley region. The range lies in an east-west direction, east of the Coachella Valley , west of the Chuckwalla Mountains , and south of Interstate 10 .
The Lower Colorado River Valley − LCRV — a geographic region flanking the Lower Colorado River, in California, Arizona, and Nevada. Its watershed is within the larger Colorado River Basin . The main article for this category is Lower Colorado River Valley .
National Wilderness Preservation System Areas within the Lower Colorado River Valley — located in eastern California and western Arizona, in the Southwestern United States. Pages in category "Wilderness areas within the Lower Colorado River Valley"
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It is characterized by the high, east-west trending Black Ridge dissected by seven major canyon systems, draining into the Colorado River in Ruby Canyon. Elevations range from 4,700 feet (1,400 m) above sea level along the river to 6,800 feet (2,070 m). Canyons vary in length from several miles to twelve miles in length and may contain ...