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There are few urban areas within the desert: the largest is Ciudad Juárez with almost two million inhabitants; Chihuahua, Saltillo, and Torreón; and the US cities of El Paso and Albuquerque.
30 Δεκ 2022 · The Chihuahuan Desert is an ecoregion that covers areas of northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S., including west Texas, parts of New Mexico, and southern Arizona. It is named after the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which contains the desert's largest area.
31 Αυγ 2024 · The city of Chihuahua is a transportation hub with air, highway, and railway links to central Mexico and the United States. Other important cities in the state are Hidalgo del Parral and Juárez (or Ciudad Juárez), which lies across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas.
The Chihuahuan Desert, long a corridor for trade between Mexico City and Santa Fe, New Mexico, is now home to five million people. The Rio Grande basin covers 172,000 square miles, crossing three U.S. states, more than a dozen Native American nations and five Mexican states.
18 Αυγ 2022 · Here, the region's prehistoric people built a thriving city – rooted in ancient desert traditions, and connected to cultures far afield. Located near the modern city of Nuevo Casas Grandes, Paquime is surrounded by Chihuahuan Desert grasslands and volcanic hills and mountains.
11 Ιαν 2024 · The Chihuahuan Desert is North America's largest desert ecoregion, extending across the southwestern US and Central Mexico. It's a rain shadow desert bordered by two mountain ranges and is home to unique endemic species. The region boasts a variety of landscapes, from grasslands to shrublands.
It is the largest desert in North America and is located between two of Mexico’s largest mountain ranges called the eastern and western Sierra Madre. Like most deserts, the Chihuahuan’s weather is harsh, blistering daytime temperatures and below-freezing temperatures at night.
