Colorado Desert
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- desert
- Part of
- Sonoran Desert
- Country
- Mexico
- Area
- 28000
- Image
- Coloradodesert.jpg
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- Commons category
- Colorado Desert
- topic's main category
- Category:Colorado Desert
- lowest point
- Salton Sea
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
- Köppen climate classification
- hot desert climate
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Encyclopedic overview
Colorado Desert landscape
The Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico. It encompasses approximately 7 million acres (2,800,000 ha; 28,000 km), including the heavily irrigated Coachella, Imperial and Mexicali valleys. It is home to many unique flora and fauna.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colorado Desert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.