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The New Mexico (southwestern) Tablelands ecoregion flank a small portion of the eastern edge of the Colorado Plateau (2L) and the western edge of much of the New Mexico Great Plains, the Western High Plains (4D). The Tableland are a contrast from the ecoregion on either side and do so with red hued canyons, mesas, badlands, and dissected river breaks.
Unlike most all of the adjacent Great Plains ecological regions, very little of this Basin and Range ecoregion, the Tablelands is in cropland. Instead, the majority of this ecoregion is in sub-humid grassland and semiarid range land.
The potential natural vegetation is grama-buffalo grass with some mesquite-buffalo grass in the southeast, juniper-scrub oak-midgrass savanna on escarpment bluffs, and shinnery (midgrass prairie with open low and shrubs) along the Canadian River.
As the Tablelands extend northward, the width narrows until there is only a narrow section at the most northern end which continues north to the adjacent southern Rockies ecoregion, which extends down from Colorado.
To the West
To the northwest border of the Tablelands ecoregion can be found the southeastern expansion of the Colorado Plateau (2I) ecoregion. The border between these two ecoregions travel northward all the way until they both reach the Southern Rockies ecoregion near Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The southern and western border of the Tablelands ecoregion can be found both the Chihuahua Basin ecoregion (2C) and the easternmost areas of the Escarpment and Mountains ecoregion (2N), both within the Basin and Range Region in New Mexico.
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