In today’s blast from the past…The Sonoran Desert!
SONORAN DESERT is a North American desert which covers a large part of the South – western United States in Arizona and California and of North-western Mexico in Sonora, Baja California and Baja California Sur. It is the hottest desert in Mexico, with an area of 280,000sq.km. The western portion of the United States passes through the Sonoran Desert.
In phytogeography, the Sonoran Desert is within the Sonoran Floristic Province of the MADREAN REGION in south-western North America, part of the HOLARCTIC KINGDOM of the northern Western Hemispheres.
The Sonoran Desert includes 60 mammal species, 350 bird species, 20 amphibian species, over 100 reptile species, 30 native fish species, over 1,000 native bee species and more than 2,000 native plant species. The Sonoran Desert area southwest of Tucson and near the Mexican border is vital habitat for the only population of Jaguars living within the US. The Colorado River Delta, was once an ecological…
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