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30 Δεκ 2022 · It is named after the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which contains the desert's largest area. Altogether, the desert occupies an area of 501,896 km2 and is the largest desert in North America. The desert has existed for roughly 8,000 years.
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 ...
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.
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.
Area. The Sonoran Desert has an area of about 311,000 square kilometers (120,000 sq mi). The Chihuahuan Desert has an area of about 362,000 square kilometers (139,769 sq mi). Elevation. The Sonoran Desert is lower in elevation that the Chihuahuan Desert, with some parts (in the USA) lying below sea level.
The roughly 200,000-square-mile Chihuahuan Desert — larger than the state of California — stretches across six Mexican states and parts of Texas and New Mexico. 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.
The Chihuahuan Desert, the largest and most biologically diverse North American desert, is a mostly high-elevation, warm temperate to subtropical desert that sprawls across southeastern Arizona, southern New Mexico, much of western Texas, and north-central Mexico.
