enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of North American deserts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_deserts

    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.

  3. Southwestern United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_United_States

    When people think of the desert southwest, the landscape of the Sonoran Desert is what mostly comes to mind. [20] The Sonoran Desert makes up the southwestern portion of the Southwest; most of the desert lies in Mexico, but its United States component lies on the southeastern border of California, and the western 2/3 of southern Arizona.

  4. Mojave Desert - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Desert

    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 ...

  5. Colorado Plateau - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Plateau

    The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. This plateau covers an area of 336,700 km 2 (130,000 mi 2 ) within western Colorado , northwestern New Mexico , southern and eastern Utah , northern Arizona , and a tiny fraction ...

  6. Deserts of California - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserts_of_California

    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.

  7. Aridoamerica - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aridoamerica

    When people think of the desert southwest, the landscape of the Sonoran Desert is what mostly comes to mind. [12] The Sonoran Desert makes up the southwestern portion of the Southwest. Rainfall averages between 4–12 inches per year, and the desert's most widely known inhabitant is the saguaro cactus, which is unique to the desert.

  8. Best Places in the Southwest to Live on Only a Social ...

    www.aol.com/best-places-southwest-live-only...

    1. Greeley, CO. If you're looking for the most affordable place to retire in the Southwest, you've found it in Greeley. Low healthcare costs, low crime and plenty of outdoor activities make it a ...

  9. Category:Deserts of the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Deserts_of_the...

    Deserts of the United States by state (10 C) C. Chihuahuan Desert (6 C, 48 P) D. Deserts and xeric shrublands in the United States (9 C, 26 P) L.