enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Geography of Colorado - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Colorado

    Map of Colorado Colorado map of Köppen climate classification A digital elevation model relief map of Colorado. The geography of the U.S. State of Colorado is diverse, encompassing both rugged mountainous terrain, vast plains, desert lands, desert canyons, and mesas. Colorado is a landlocked U.S. state.

  3. List of North American deserts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_deserts

    The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest hot desert in North America, located in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Its total area is 140,000 sq mi (360,000 km 2). 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.

  4. Lower Colorado River Valley - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Colorado_River_Valley

    The Lower Colorado River Valley is in the western part of the Sonoran Desert, which is called the Colorado Desert. the Sonoran Desert region proper extends from areas west of the river, and then southeastwards to southeast Arizona, south along the eastern side of the Baja Peninsula cordillera to Baja California Sur, and southeast Sonora state ...

  5. Colorado - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado

    Colorado (/ ˌ k ɒ l ə ˈ r æ d oʊ,-ˈ r ɑː d oʊ / ⓘ KOL-ə-RAD-oh, -⁠ RAH-doh, [8] [9] other variants; [10] Spanish: [koloˈɾaðo]) is a state in the Western United States.It is one of the Mountain states, sharing the Four Corners region with Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

  6. Colorado Desert - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Desert

    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.

  7. Southwestern United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_United_States

    Although not called a desert, the Colorado Plateau is mostly made up of high desert. Within the Southwest U.S. region, the Colorado is bordered to the south by the Mogollon Rim and the Sonoran Desert, to the west by the Mojave Desert, and to the east by the Rocky Mountains, the Rio Grande Rift valley, and the Llano Estacado. [24]

  8. List of territorial claims and designations in Colorado

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_claims...

    The United States annexes the Republic of Texas as the State of Texas on December 29, 1845. On December 29, 1845, U.S. President James K. Polk signed the Joint resolution for the admission of the State of Texas into the Union. [67] The United States assumed the territorial claims of the Republic of Texas upon the annexation.

  9. Geography of Texas - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Texas

    The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., [1] it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico.