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The Yuma Desert is a lower-elevation section of the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States and the northwest of Mexico. It lies in the Salton basin. The desert contains areas of sparse vegetation and has notable areas of sand dunes. With an average rainfall less than 8 inches (200 mm) each year, it is among the harshest deserts in ...
The Tinajas Altas Mountains ( O'odham: Uʼuva:k or Uʼuv Oopad) are an extremely arid northwest–southeast trending mountain range in southern Yuma County, Arizona, approximately 35 mi southeast of Yuma, Arizona. The southern end of the range extends approximately one mile into the northwestern Mexican state of Sonora on the northern perimeter ...
The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a 26-mile (42 km) long [1] [2] mountain range in southwestern Arizona in the northwest Sonoran Desert . The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a northwest-southeast trending mountain system. The fault-blocked mountain range is attached on the south to the Tinajas Altas Mountains which continue southeast into ...
The Yuma Open was a golf tournament that ran from 1990 to 1993 on the Nike Tour It was played at Desert Hills Golf Course in Yuma, Arizona. [1] Winners [ edit ]
Ajo Range, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Artillery Mountains above Alamo Lake. Dragoon Mountains. View of the Galiuro Mountains from San Manuel, Arizona. Harquahala Mountains in spring, 2009. McDowell Mountains at sunset. Low clouds on the Mohawk Mountains. Navajo Mountain and Lake Powell, viewed from the north.
Located within the Yuma Desert, a lower-elevation section of the Sonoran Desert, the refuge was originally established in 1939 to protect desert bighorn sheep. It is home to more than 275 different species of animals and nearly 400 species of plants. CPNWR is the third largest national wildlife refuge in the lower 48 states.
Yuma International Airport. Website. www.yumaaz.gov. Yuma is a city in and the county seat [3] of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 95,548 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 census population of 93,064. [4] Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Yuma County.
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. / 33.267°N 114.000°W / 33.267; -114.000. The Kofa National Wildlife Refuge is located in Arizona in the southwestern United States, northeast of Yuma and southeast of Quartzsite. The refuge, established in 1939 to protect desert bighorn sheep, encompasses over 665,400 acres (2,693 km 2) of the Yuma ...