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Bookmark or Share- Joshua Tree National Park (U.S. National Park Service)Where Two Deserts Meet Two distinct desert ecosystems, the Mojave and the Colorado, come together in Joshua Tree National Park. A fascinating variety of plants and animals make their homes in a land sculpted by strong winds and occasional torrents of rain.
- Mojave Desert | Location, Map, Plants, Climate, & FactsMojave Desert, arid region of southeastern California and portions of Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, U.S. It was named for the Mojave people. The Mojave Desert occupies more than 25,000 square miles (65,000 square km) and joins the Sonoran , Great Basin , and Chihuahuan deserts in forming the North American Desert .
- Mojave Desert Map - Desert, United States - MapcartaMojave Desert. The Mojave Desert is a desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Southwestern United States. It is named for the indigenous Mojave people. Overview. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map.
- The Major Deserts Of The United States - WorldAtlasThe Mojave Desert is the smallest of the four major American Deserts. However, it is still an immense and impressive sight to behold at over 20-million acres (31,250 square miles), spanning parts of California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. The Mojave stretches from the Sierra Nevada Range and California Montane Chaparral and Woodlands in the West, and the San Gabriel/San Bernardino Mountains in the Southwest, to the Colorado Plateau and Arizona Mountain Forests to the East.
- Mojave Desert - WikipediaThe Mojave Desert is distinguished from the Sonoran Desert and other deserts adjacent to it by its warm temperate climate, as well as flora and fauna such as ironwood (Olneya tesota), blue Palo Verde (Parkinsonia florida), chuparosa (Justicia californica), spiny menodora (Menodora spinescens), desert senna (Cassia armata), California dalea (Psorothamnus arborescens), and goldenhead (Acamptopappus shockleyi). Along with these other factors, these plants differentiate the Mojave from the ...
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