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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.
All of these cold deserts experience about 100–300 mm of precipitation in a year indicating a semi-arid climate. The warm deserts of North America include The Mojave Basin and Range, the Sonoran desert, and the Chihuahuan desert. These areas have a tropical desert climate, and are known as the hottest and driest place on the continent.
In the United States, the EPA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) are the principal federal agencies working with the CEC to define and map ecoregions. Ecoregions may be identified by similarities in geology , physiography , vegetation , climate , soils , land use , wildlife distributions, and hydrology .
All deserts of the United States are located in North America except the Kaʻū Desert which is located in Hawaii. Subcategories. This category has the following 6 ...
Temperate coniferous forests of the United States (1 C, 31 P) Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands in the United States (2 C, 25 P) Tropical and subtropical coniferous forests of the United States (4 P)
Ecoregions of North America, featuring the 50 United States, the District of Columbia and the five inhabited territories. The following is a list of United States ecoregions as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The United States is a megadiverse country with a high level of endemism across a wide variety of ecosystems.
Pages in category "Plains of the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
This is a list of the largest deserts in the world by area. It includes all deserts above 50,000 km 2 (19,300 sq mi). Some of Earth 's biggest non-polar deserts