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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 ...
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.
High Desert is a vernacular region with non-discrete boundaries covering areas of the western Mojave Desert in Southern California. The region encompasses various terrain with elevations generally between 2,000 and 4,000 ft (610 and 1,220 m) above sea level, and is located just north of the San Gabriel, San Bernardino, and Little San Bernardino ...
Interior of Amboy Crater showing a lava lake and the distant breach in the cinder cone rim. Interior of Amboy Crater from near breach showing lava lakes. Amboy Crater is a dormant cinder cone volcano that rises above a 70-square-kilometer (27 sq mi) lava field in the eastern Mojave Desert of southern California, within Mojave Trails National Monument.
Established. 1942. Slogan. “The last free place”. Website. slab-city.com (archived) Slab City, also called The Slabs, is an unincorporated, off-the-grid alternative lifestyle community [ 1] consisting largely of snowbirds [ 2] in the Salton Trough area of the Sonoran Desert, in Imperial County, California.
Calico Early Man Site. / 34.94814068; -116.76133173. The Calico Early Man Site is an archaeological site in an ancient Pleistocene lake located near Barstow in San Bernardino County in the central Mojave Desert of Southern California. This site is on and in late middle- Pleistocene fanglomerates (now-cemented alluvial debris flow deposits ...
A small earthquake shook the Southern California desert Saturday near Coachella, where the famous music festival is being held this weekend. The epicenter was about 20 miles (32 kilometers ...
Kelso Dunes, also known as the Kelso Dune Field, is the largest field of aeolian sand deposits in the Mojave Desert. The region is protected by the Mojave National Preserve and is located near the town of Baker, San Bernardino County, California, and the Preserve Visitor Center. [2] The dune field covers 45 square miles (120 km 2) and includes ...