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The Chihuahuan Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Chihuahua, Desierto Chihuahuense) is a desert ecoregion designation covering parts of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. It occupies much of far West Texas , the middle to lower Rio Grande Valley and the lower Pecos Valley in New Mexico , and a portion of southeastern Arizona , as ...
The Chihuahuan Desert — a North American ecoregion of the Deserts and xeric shrublands Biome, located in northeastern Mexico and the Southwestern United States. In phytogeography , the Chihuahuan Desert is within the Madrean Region .
Otero Mesa is the northernmost part of the Chihuahuan Desert at its longitude. [7] While the Chihuahuan Desert extends another 200 miles north along the Pecos and Rio Grande River Valleys, the high backslopes of the Sacramento, White, and Manzano Mountains between the basins are too mesic to support Chihuahuan Desert vegetative sites.
Big Bend National Park is a national park of the United States located in West Texas, bordering Mexico.The park has national significance as the largest protected area of Chihuahuan Desert topography and ecology in the United States, [3] and was named after a large bend in the Rio Grande/Río Bravo. [4]
Therefore, in 2004, the Tularosa Basin National Desalination Research Facility was established in the basin at Alamogordo, as a joint project of the Federal Bureau of Reclamation and Sandia National Laboratories. It is a national center for researching procedures to reduce brackish water creation and to develop new technologies for desalination ...
Samalayuca Dune field, 2018. See detail image, below. Scale bar is 5 km. Samalayuca dunes detail. Scale bar (lower left) is 1 km. The Samalayuca Dune Fields, more traditionally known as Los Médanos (the dunes), or more recently referenced as Médanos de Samalayuca are a series of large but separated fields of sand dunes located in the northern part of the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The ecoregion consists of a complex of high-elevation pine–oak forests surrounded at lower elevations by deserts and xeric shrublands and tropical dry forests, including the Sonoran Desert to the northwest, the Chihuahuan Desert to the northeast and east in Arizona, the Meseta Central matorral and Central Mexican matorral to the southeast ...
Map of the Chihuahuan Desert, as a satellite image from NASA, with the border between the US and Mexico shown in black. The area is protected by several reserves in both countries. The protected area is in the Chihuahuan desert ecoregion. It includes a number of mountain ranges separated by valleys and undulating plains.