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There are three main deserts in California: the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, and the Great Basin Desert. [5]: 408 The Mojave Desert is bounded by the Tehachapi Mountains on the northwest, the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains on the south, and extends eastward to California's borders with Arizona and Nevada; it also forms portions of northwest Arizona.
The Mojave Desert is often colloquially called the "high desert", as most of it lies between 2,000 and 4,000 feet (610 and 1,220 m). It supports a diversity of flora and fauna. The 54,000 sq mi (140,000 km 2) desert supports a number of human activities, including recreation, ranching, and military training. [ 9]
The earliest tales of a lost Spanish galleon appeared shortly after the Colorado River flood of 1862. Colonel Albert S. Evans reported seeing such a ship in 1863. In the Los Angeles Daily News of August 1870, the ship was described as a half-buried hulk in a drying alkali marsh or saline lake, west of Dos Palmas, California, and 40 miles north of Yuma, Arizona.
Viento de Levante or Levanter (easterly through Strait of Gibraltar) Leste (hot, dry, easterly wind of the Madeira and Canary Islands) Leveche (Spanish name for a warm southwest wind in parts of coastal Mediterranean Spain) Libeccio (southwesterly towards Italy) Llevantades (north-north-east and east-north-east on the east coast of Spain) Lodos ...
1974. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park(/ˈænzəbəˈreɪɡoʊ/, AN-zə bə-RAY-goh) is a California State Parklocated within the Colorado Desertof southern California, United States. The park takes its name from 18th century Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anzaand borrego, a Spanish wordfor sheep.[1] With 585,930 acres (237,120 ha) that ...
Chaparral in the Santa Ynez Mountains, near Santa Barbara, California. Chaparral ( / ˌʃæpəˈræl, ˌtʃæp -/ SHAP-ə-RAL, CHAP-) [ 1] is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. It is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild wet ...
The more ambitious province name, Las Californias, was established by a joint dispatch to the King from Viceroy de Croix and visitador José de Gálvez, dated January 28, 1768. Gálvez sought to make a distinction between the Antigua ('old') area of established settlement and the Nueva ('new') unexplored areas to the north.
List of Spanish missions in California. The horse and mule trail known as El Camino Real as of 1821 and the locations of the 21 Franciscan missions in Alta California. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Franciscan priests established 21 missions between 1769 and 1833 in Alta California, accompanied by military outposts.