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These are three deserts that are located in North America:
- The Great Basin
- Death Valley
- Sonoran Desert
Interesting Facts:
Great Basin: The Great Basin is the largest contiguous watershed of North America which does not drain to an ocean. Extending south into the states of Sonora and Baja California, the Great Basin covers most of Nevada, over half of Utah, and parts of California, Idaho, Oregon and Wyoming. The majority of the Great Basin is in the North American Desert ecoregion, but includes areas of the Forested Mountain and Mediterranean California ecoregions. The Great Basin is the ancestral homeland of the indigenous Shoshone Great Basin Tribes and was the 1849 location of the provisional State of Deseret.
Death valley:
Situated within the Mojave Desert, it features the lowest, driest, and hottest locations in North America. Badwater, a basin located within Death Valley, is the specific location of the lowest elevation in North America at 282 ft (85.5 m ) below sea level. This point is only 76 miles (123 km) east of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). Death Valley holds the record for the highest reliably reported temperature in the Western Hemisphere, 134°F (56.7°C) at Furnace Creek on July 13, 1913-just short of the world record, 136°F (57.7°C) in Al 'Aziziyah, Libya, on September 13, 1922.
Sonoran Desert: The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest deserts in North America, with an area of 311,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi). The desert contains a variety of unique plants and animals, such as the saguaro cactus. (The northern part is sometimes called the Gila Desert[citation needed] after the Gila River or the Low Desert in opposition to the higher Mojave Desert).
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∙ 9y agoThere are five major deserts in North America:
Mojave Desert (includes Death Valley)
Great Basin Desert
Chihuahuan Desert
Sonoran Desert (includes the Colorado Desert)
Colorado Plateau Desert (includes the Painted Desert)
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∙ 9y agoMajor deserts of North America:
Chihuahuan Desert
Sonoran Desert (includes the Colorado Desert)
Great Basin Desert
Mojave Desert (includes Death Valley)
Colorado Plateau Desert (includes the Painted Desert)
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∙ 9y agoThere is no desert that covers most of North America. There are four deserts in the United States. These include the Great Basin, the Sonoran Desert, the Mojave Desert, and the Chihuahuan.
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