Sonoran Desert - Wikipedia
WEBThe Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona and California).
Sonoran Desert | Map, Plants, Animals, & Facts | Britannica
WEBJun 28, 2024 · Sonoran Desert, arid region covering 120,000 square miles (310,800 square km) in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, U.S., and including much of the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, part of Baja California state, and the western half of the state of Sonora.
Sonoran Desert - Sonoran Desert Region
WEBThe Sonoran Desert as currently defined covers approximately 100,000 square miles (260,000 sq. km.) and includes most of the southern half of Arizona, southeastern California, most of the Baja California peninsula, the islands of the Gulf of California, and much of the state of Sonora, Mexico.
The Sonoran Desert - U.S. National Park Service
WEBFeb 24, 2015 · It is a subtropical desert and the most complex desert in North America. It has great diversity in geological structures as well as the number and variety of plants and animals. One reason for the many plants and animals in the Sonoran Desert is that it receives rainfall bi-seasonally.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ - Zoo, Botanical ...
WEBThe Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is a world-renowned zoo, natural history museum and botanical garden, all in one place. Exhibits re-create the natural landscape of the Sonoran Desert Region with more than 300 animal species and 1,200 kinds of plants along almost 2 miles of paths traversing 21 acres of beautiful desert.
Sonoran Desert National Monument | Bureau of Land Management
WEBThe Sonoran Desert National Monument contains magnificent examples of untrammeled Sonoran Desert landscape. The monument sits in the most biologically diverse of the North American deserts and captures a significant portion of that diversity.
Sonoran Desert | Bureau of Land Management
WEBThings to do. Hiking, backpacking, stargazing, camping, hunting, motor touring, sightseeing, photography, and horseback riding. Hiking and Horseback Riding. You may hike or ride horseback almost anywhere in the Sonoran Desert National Monument.
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