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A restored cienega in Balmorhea State Park. A ciénega (also spelled ciénaga) is a wetland system unique to the American Southwest and Northern Mexico.Ciénagas are alkaline, freshwater, spongy, wet meadows with shallow-gradient, permanently saturated soils in otherwise arid landscapes that often occupy nearly the entire widths of valley bottoms.
Cienega Springs is a census-designated place in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. Its population was 1,690 as of the 2020 census. Geography.
The Empire and Cienega ranches, along with portions of the adjacent Rose Tree and Vera Earl ranches, were put under public ownership and managed by Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the principles of multiple-use and ecosystem management for future generations to use and enjoy. The BLM has formed a partnership with the nonprofit Empire ...
Ciénega Creek is located within the transitional zone between the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts, and exhibits some features of each region.The creek supports "outstanding examples" of cottonwood-willow gallery forest and mesquite bosque, which are home to many bird species that have become rare due to the loss of riparian habitats.
Ciénega (Spanish pronunciation:) is a municipality in the Márquez Province, part of Boyacá Department, Colombia. The urban centre of Ciénega is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of 27 kilometres (17 mi) from the department capital Tunja at an elevation of 2,460 metres (8,070 ft). The elevation ranges within the ...
La Cienega, New Mexico, a census-designated place in Santa Fe County; La Cienega Boulevard, a major arterial road in Los Angeles County, California La Cienega/Jefferson station, a station on the LA Metro E Line; Ciénega Creek, an intermittent stream in southern Arizona; Las Cienegas National Conservation Area, a protected area in Arizona
Cienega of San Simon was a camping and watering place on the Southern Emigrant Trail after John Coffee Hays pioneered the Tucson Cutoff route from Cooke's Wagon Road to the east in the Animas Valley to Tucson via Stein's Pass to the Cienega, to Apache Pass, to Nugent’s Pass, to the lower crossing of the San Pedro River near Tres Alamos, to rejoin Cooke's road again at a waterhole, just east ...
Ciénaga (Spanish pronunciation:) is a municipality and city in the Magdalena Department, Colombia, the second largest population center in this department, after the city of Santa Marta. It is situated at 11° 00' North , 74° 15' West, between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta , the Caribbean Sea and the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta marsh in ...