where exactly is the sonoran desert?
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The Sonoran Desert is an arid region covering 120,000 square miles in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, as well as most of Baja California and the western half of the state of Sonora, Mexico. Subdivisions of this hot, dry region include the Colorado and Yuma deserts. Irrigation has produced many fertile agricultural areas, including the Coachella and Imperial valleys of California. Warm winters attract tourists to Sonora Desert resorts in Palm Springs, California, and Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona.
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what? what exactly are you asking?\nis Mexico located in North America? yes\nis is part of the U.S.? no
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For one thing, the Mexican border is a lot bigger and more strongly populated than the middle of the Nevada desert.\n\nAlso, I doubt that just shooting everyone is the correct answer.
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Deserts are generally located in two broad belts either side of the equator. That is because the surface air rises at the equator due to the higher temperatures. As the equatorial air rises it cools and the water condenses out and fall as rain. The cold air then falls back to the surface in those two sub-equatorial belts. The air at this stage is depleted of all moisture, and because the air is falling it creates a high pressure system that prevents rain producing weather systems from developing.\n\nThat is a fairly simplistic summary of some complex weather systems, but it suffices to explain why deserts are located where they are.
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Your question should read:\n\nWho owns Baja California?\n\n~ Or ~\n\nWhat country is Baja California in?\n\nThe answer is Mexico.\n\nBaja California is located in the extreme northwest corner of the Mexican Republic.\n\nBaja California is bounded on the north by the American States of California and Arizona; at the northeast tip by the State of Sonora, which is the only land area that joins the Baja California peninsula to rest of the country; and on the south by the State of Baja California Sur.\n\nBaja California has a population of approximately 2'487,367 inhabitants.\nThis state has 4 municipalities; The biggest is Ensenada, with an area of more than 51,000 sq. km (19,690 sq. mi.). The total area of the Baja California state is 70,113 sq. km (27,070 sq. mi.), not including the insular territory.\n\nThe climate of Baja California is hot and dry, but the state's geographical location, to the north of the Tropic of Cancer, gives it a well defined winter. In the northeast, the climate is semi-desert, with very high temperatures in the summer and at the beginning of fall. The winter is rainy, but not extremely so. To the northwest, from the U.S. border to San Quintin Bay, the climate is mild with hot summers. The winter is rainy with prevailing westerly winds.\n\nIn the San Pedro Martir Mountains, the highest area of the state, the climate is mild in the summer and cold in the winter, with snow in the area of the astronomic observatory.\n\nIn the desert and sandy zones to the south of Rosarito, the climate is very dry, extremely hot in summer, and the large temperature difference between day and night.
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Petrified Forest.\n\nIt is a National Park in northeastern Arizona that contains one of the largest collections of petrified trees in the world (formed by the process described in your question).  It is right next to the Painted Desert - a area of multi-colored ridges and hills.
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there is actually a city in California called Militas. I am not exactly sure of where it is, Northern or Southern CA though.
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Sort of... this is partially true.  As one of the largest water sources in the desert southwest, the Colorado River is one of the most fought-over rivers in the world.  After much legal fighting and arguement, the majority of the water in the lower part of the river was divided up between Arizona, Nevada, Utah or California with the Colorado River Compact of 1922.  \n\nThe agreement was amended in 1944 to ensure that Mexico would receive a minimum of about 1.4 million acre feet (about a 10th of the flow of the lower river).  However, by the time it gets to the border, it has been so drained (and picked up so much mineral run-off from farmland) that the saline and mineral levels are far too high to use even for irrigation.  As a result, the US has built a de-salinazation plant that processes all of the water at the border and sends it on to Mexico via canals.  By that point, it is really no longer a river in any real sense of the word and (except during floods) none of the water ever actually makes it to the Gulf of California anymore.
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It won't be Arizona, my friend. When San Andreas cracks open, and it will, the coast line will be on the Western Slope of Colorado, and I'll tell you why!!\nIn the middle of the Mojave Desert is a Nuclear testing plant, placed there by our wonderful United States Government (what a bunch of pricks). When the big one hits...say goodbye to about 1,000 miles of these United States (and parts of Mexico, too).
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Heaven is a small beach I found on the West coast of Mexico. Pure white sand. Blue sea. Un-spoilt. Friendly locals and cold corona.\n\nHell ? Ask any ex-combat soldier.
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The Great American Desert.
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FALSE! actually, About one-fifth of Earth's land surface is desert. to that's 20%. : )\n\ntry this link if your not convince. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert
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I think that would be the Great Indian Desert. Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_indian_desert
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Never saw it before.  Thanks I bookmarked it.  At first I thought it was from Iraq but soon I recognized it as the Arizona desert.
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U mean the Drakensburg Escarpment... which is NOT a desert... Therefore ur answer is...not the Sahara but the... Kalahari Woestyn(desert). btw, S.A doesnt really have a desert.
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The Sahara is the world's largest non-polar desert, over 9,000,000 km² (3,500,000 mi²), about the same size as the United States. \n\nThe United States's total area is 3,718,711 square miles (9,631,418 km²), of which land makes up 3,537,438 square miles (9,161,923 km²) and water makes up 181,273 square miles (469,495 km²).\n\nSo, in this comparison, the United States is larger.
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deserts of the world: http://ag.arizona.edu/~lmilich/desert.html&#92;\nhttp://ag.arizona.edu/~lmilich/swmad/sld001.htm\nDeserts in the south\nhttp://www.gesource.ac.uk/worldguide/html/947_map.html