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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.
Pages in category "Deserts of North America" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Chihuahuan ...
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 subcategories, out of 6 total.
The average annual temperature in the desert varies from about 13 to 22 °C (55 to 72 °F), depending on elevation and latitude. The mean annual precipitation for the Chihuahuan Desert is 235 mm (9.3 in) with a range of approximately 150–400 mm (6–16 in), although it receives more precipitation than most other warm desert ecoregions. [3]
Located in Alaska's Denali National Park and Preserve, Denali is the tallest mountain in North America, even taller than Everest if you measure it from base to summit.At 20,310 feet above sea ...
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.
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(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades ...