Low Desert
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The Low Desert is a common name for one the Deserts of California regional areas, that includes the Colorado Desert and Yuha Desert in the Southern California portion of the Sonoran Desert. It is distinguished in biogeography from the adjacent northern High Desert or Mojave Desert by latitude, elevation, climate, and native plant communities.[1]
Communities[edit]
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The cities and towns in the Low Desert include:
Parks[edit]
- Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
- Joshua Tree National Park – northern portion of Low Desert
- Salton Sea State Recreation Area
- Indio Hills Palms Park
- Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument
- Big Morongo Canyon Preserve
Wildlife refuges and wilderness areas[edit]
- Coachella Valley National Wildlife Refuge
- Imperial National Wildlife Refuge
- Havasu National Wildlife Refuge
- Cibola National Wildlife Refuge
- Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge
- Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness
- Santa Rosa Wilderness
- Indian Pass Wilderness
- Whipple Mountains Wilderness
- Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness
- Little Picacho Wilderness
See also[edit]
- Category: Populated places in the Colorado Desert
- Category: Protected areas of the Colorado Desert
- Category: Wilderness Areas within the Lower Colorado River Valley
- Category: Flora of the California desert regions
- Category: Mountain ranges of the Colorado Desert
References[edit]
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| Wikivoyage has a travel guide for California Desert. |
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Categories:
- Deserts of California
- Colorado Desert
- Regions of California
- Deserts of the Lower Colorado River Valley
- Geography of San Bernardino County, California
- Geography of Riverside County, California
- Geography of Imperial County, California
- Geography of San Diego County, California
- Geography of Southern California
- Inland Empire (California)
- Southern California
- Coachella Valley
- Imperial Valley
- Blythe, California
- Indio, California
- Palm Springs, California
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- Riverside County, California geography stubs
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