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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 ...
Chihuahua, [a] officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua, [b] is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.It is located in the northwestern part of Mexico and is bordered by the states of Sonora to the west, Sinaloa to the southwest, Durango to the south, and Coahuila to the east.
Otero Mesa is a 1.2 million acre (4,900 km 2) area in northern Chihuahuan Desert region of southern New Mexico. Between 1954 and 1965 the U.S. Army expanded its McGregor Range facilities at Fort Bliss onto Otero Mesa by purchasing ranches.
The Trans-Pecos is part of the Chihuahuan Desert, the largest desert in North America. It is the most mountainous and arid portion of the state, and most of its vast area (outside the city of El Paso) is sparsely populated. Among the nine counties in the region are the five largest counties by area in Texas and eight of the eleven largest in ...
Formed approximately 8000 years ago, the Chihuahuan Desert is a relatively dry desert, [21] although it is slightly wetter than the Sonoran Desert to the west. [20] The Chihuahuan Desert spreads across the southeastern portion of the region, covering from southeastern Arizona, across southern and central New Mexico, and the portion of western ...
Dairy farming in Mexico's main milk-producing region - the nearby city of Torreon - has since the beginning of the 20th century heavily relied on Cuatro Cienegas for water to feed wells used for ...
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 .
Located in Coachella Valley in the Colorado Desert region of the Sonoran Desert, Indio is home to at least five major 55+ active adult retirement communities that combine for more than 6,500 homes.