Subdivision of the larger Sonoran Desert, California
This article is about the desert in California. For the deserts upon the Colorado plateau in general, see Colorado Plateau.
Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States and Baja California, Mexico. It encompasses approximately 7 million acres (2,800,000 ha; 28,000 km2), including the heavily irrigated Coachella, Imperial and Mexicali valleys. It is home to many unique flora and fauna.
ColoradoDesert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States and Baja California, Mexico. It encompasses approximately 7 million...
deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the ColoradoDesert, and the Great Basin Desert.: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains...
Grand Junction, the Colorado turns northwest before cutting southwest across the eponymous Colorado Plateau, a vast area of high desert centered at the Four...
Desert ColoradoDesert, Southern California (the Low Desert) Yuha Desert, Imperial Valley, California Yuma Desert, southwest Arizona Lechuguilla Desert, southwest...
extending west to the Colorado River. On the other side of the river, in California, is the ColoradoDesert region of the Sonoran Desert, also referred to...
The Colorado Plateau, also known as the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered...
Laughlin, Nevada and Needles, California before entering Mexico in the ColoradoDesert. Most of its waters are diverted into the Imperial Valley of Southern...
Flora of the ColoradoDesert, located in Southern California. The ColoradoDesert is a sub-region in the Sonoran Desert ecoregion of southwestern North...
the ColoradoDesert and Yuha Desert branches of the Sonoran Desert, in the far southeasternmost portion of Southern California. The Low Desert is distinguished...
differences between desert tortoises east and west of the Colorado River, it was decided that two species of desert tortoises exist: Agassiz's desert tortoise (Gopherus...
Sierra Nevada, the Transverse Ranges, the Mojave Desert, the Peninsular Ranges, and the ColoradoDesert. The boundaries of California were defined by Spanish...
snowfall, but along the Colorado River in the Inner Gorge, temperatures are similar to those found in Tucson and other low elevation desert locations in Arizona...
Sierra Nevada, the Transverse Ranges, the Mojave Desert, the Peninsular Ranges, and the ColoradoDesert. Here, the Los Angeles Basin, the Channel Islands...
The Colorado River toad (Incilius alvarius), also known as the Sonoran Desert toad, is a toad species found in northwestern Mexico and the southwestern...
(/koʊˈtʃɛlə, koʊ.ə-/ koh-CHEL-ə, koh-ə-) is an arid rift valley in the ColoradoDesert of Southern California in Riverside County. The valley has been referred...
are determined primarily by elevation: the higher Mojave Desert and the lower ColoradoDesert. The Little San Bernardino Mountains traverse the southwest...
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation...
(2010). "Desert Cottontail". Mammals of Colorado (Second ed.). University Press of Colorado. pp. 264–266. ISBN 978-1-607-32048-7. "Desert cottontail...
in the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Great Basin Desert, and Chihuahuan Desert, as well as the Colorado Plateau. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Joshua...
The desert rosy boa (Lichanura trivirgata) is a species of snake in the family Boidae. The desert rosy boa is native to the American Southwest and Baja...
Mojave Desert – a desert in the United States Red Desert (Wyoming) Sonoran Desert – a desert in the United States and Mexico ColoradoDesert Gran Desierto...
as tilapia. Currently, the desert pupfish occurs only in three drainage basins: the Salton Sea, California, the Colorado River Delta, Baja California...
found in desert riparian habitats at spring-fed and stream-fed oases in the ColoradoDesert and at a few scattered locations in the Mojave Desert. It is...
in desert regions at elevations to about 3,000 ft (900 m) in the "Low Desert" or ColoradoDesert of Southern California, and in other Sonoran Desert regions...