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The Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert and ecoregion in North America that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the Southwestern United States (in Arizona and California). It is the hottest desert in Mexico. [3]
The desert extends across much of the northern border of the Gulf of California, spanning more than 100 kilometres (62 mi) east to west and over 50 kilometres (31 mi) north to south. It constitutes the largest continuous wilderness area within the Sonoran Desert.
The original map included the Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest as part of the Sonoran Desert, when in reality it's actually a completely different ecoregion. 22:18, 18 December 2010 1,712 × 1,992 (347 KB)
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de la Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar) is a biosphere reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] managed by the federal government of Mexico, specifically by Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources, in collaboration with the state governments of Sonora and the Tohono O'odham.
Sonora's border with the United States is 588 kilometres (365 mi) long, [37] and runs through desert and mountains, from the western Chihuahuan Desert, through an area of grasslands and oak mountain areas to the Sonoran Desert west of Nogales. The area gets drier from here west and the last third of the border is generally uninhabited.
It is located on the northern shores of the Sea of Cortez on the small strip of land that joins the Baja California Peninsula with the rest of Mexico. [4] The area is part of the Altar Desert, one of the driest and hottest areas of the larger Sonoran Desert. [5] Since the late 1990s, there has been a push to develop the area for tourism.
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)
The Pinacate Peaks (Sierra Pinacate, O'odham: Cuk Doʼag) are a group of volcanic peaks and cinder cones located mostly in the Mexican state of Sonora along the international border adjacent to the U.S. state of Arizona, surrounded by the vast sand dune field of the Gran Desierto de Altar, at the desert's southeast. [1]