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Bookmark or Share- Sonoran Desert - WikipediaThe Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert and ecoregion in North America that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the Southwestern United States (in Arizona and California).
- Sonoran Desert - New World EncyclopediaIt is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 120,000 square miles (311,000 km²). The desert contains an incredible array of unique plants and animals, such as the saguaro cactus that can live to be 250 years old and the kangaroo rat that never needs to drink water.
- The Sonoran Desert - WorldAtlasThe Sonoran Desert is made up of broad valleys lowly-elevated and bordered by long and narrow mountain ranges running from northern Mexico across Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, and ending in Idaho's southern plains.
- Sonoran Desert National Monument - Bureau of Land ManagementThe Sonoran Desert National Monument contains magnificent examples of untrammeled Sonoran Desert landscape. The monument sits in the most biologically diverse of the North American deserts and captures a significant portion of that diversity.
- Sonoran Desert Network Ecosystems - U.S. National Park ServiceThe Sonoran Desert is thought to have the greatest species diversity of any desert in North America. Take our video tour of the amazing mammals that live in its many biomes. The Sonoran Desert Network monitors these species via a series of wildlife cameras in National Park Service units.
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