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  2. Sonoran Desert - Wikipedia

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    The Sonoran desert wraps around the northern end of the Gulf of California, from Baja California Sur (El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve in central and Pacific west coast, Central Gulf Coast subregion on east to southern tip), north through much of Baja California, excluding the central northwest mountains and Pacific west coast, through southeastern California and southwestern and southern ...

  3. Saguaro National Park - Wikipedia

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    Saguaro National Park is a national park of the United States in southeastern Arizona.The 92,000-acre (37,000 ha) park consists of two separate areas—the Tucson Mountain District (TMD), about 10 miles (16 km) west of Tucson, and the Rincon Mountain District (RMD), about 10 miles (16 km) east of the city.

  4. Sonoran Desert National Monument - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name

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    The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico. The western portion of the Mexico–United States border passes through the Sonoran ...

  6. Peninsular Ranges - Wikipedia

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    On the eastern side of the northern ranges, the Sonoran Desert ecoregion covers southeastern California and northeastern Baja California as far south as the town of Loreto. On the eastern side of the Laguna Mountains in San Diego County, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park is known for its springtime profusion of Colorado Desert (Sonoran) wildflowers.

  7. Flora of the Sonoran Desert - Wikipedia

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    The ecotone between the hotter, drier Colorado Desert and that of the relatively cooler and wetter Arizona Upland occurs from Parker, Arizona southeast to near Phoenix, then south to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. [2]: 6 Density of vegetation gradually diminishes moving from the Arizona Upland into the Colorado Desert proper.

  8. 5 Up-and-Coming Desert Retirement Towns - AOL

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    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 ...

  9. List of mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert - Wikipedia

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    This is an approximate delimiting line between the Mojave Desert north and northwest, and to the Sonoran Desert to the south, east, and southeast. The Colorado Desert-(subsection of the Sonoran) lies across the Colorado River to the west, but intergrades into the higher elevation Mojave Desert northwestwards. Buckskin Mountains (Arizona)