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These volcanic rocks are primarily exposed along the east and southeastern portion of the range, and are best viewed and easily accessed in the Painted Gorge area of the range (where multiple volcanic rock types of varying colors are exhibited, giving the area a gorgeous 'painted' appearance).
The Yuha Desert is a section of the Sonoran Desert located in the Imperial Valley of California; south of Interstate 8, west of El Centro, and north of the international border.
Contained within the arms of the horseshoe is a large central valley with low rolling hills covered by dense stands of cholla and other cacti, ocotillo, and an occasional agave. Viewed from the west, the strikingly light, almost white, color of the granite peaks contrast sharply with the rich green creosote and cactus-covered bajadas .
Ajo Range, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument Artillery Mountains above Alamo Lake Dragoon Mountains View of the Galiuro Mountains from San Manuel, Arizona Harquahala Mountains in spring, 2009 McDowell Mountains at sunset Low clouds on the Mohawk Mountains Navajo Mountain and Lake Powell, viewed from the north Eagle Eye Arch in the New Water ...
Wall Cycle to Ocotillo, often called the Squaw Peak Pots, is a public art installation in Phoenix, Arizona that consists of over 20 sculptures in various locations in central Phoenix. The sculptures are in the form of vessels and jars and were created by artists Mags Harries and Lajos Héder . [ 1 ]
The famous Painted Rock Petroglyph Site lies at the northeast end of the range, adjacent the Painted Rock Reservoir, and the reservoir lies at the eastern end of the agricultural river valley that is locally named as the Lower Gila River Valley, extending approximately from the Colorado River at Yuma to the west and the reservoir at the east.
The Algodones Dunes. The Colorado Desert is a subregion of the larger Sonoran Desert, [1] covering about 7 million acres (2.8 million ha; 28,000 km 2). [2] The desert occupies Imperial County, parts of San Diego and Riverside counties, and a small part of San Bernardino County in California, United States, [3] as well as the northern part of Mexicali Municipality in Baja California, Mexico.
Manly Peak Wilderness is a Bureau of Land Management wilderness area in Inyo County, California.The area was established in 1994 through the California Desert Protection Act and sits on the border of Death Valley National Park.