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Colorado Plateau Desert
The Colorado Plateau desert region is roughly centered on the Four Corners area of the southwestern United States covering a total area in square miles making it rank third behind the Great Basin Desert and Chihuahuan Desert. This desert is also an ecoregion of the same name and is found in four states, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.
The nickname Red Rock Country comes from the brightly colored rock exposed from millennia of erosion. Some of the additional features found in the Colorado Plateau deare are domes, hoodoos, fins, reefs, river narrows, natural bridges, and slot canyons.
There is a concentration of parks located within the Colorado Plateau, including National Parks, National Monument and others. The for and type of park includes a large variety from ancient petroglyph, ancient stone stacker, arches, canyons, forests, fossils, and volcano. (See list below)
Colorado Plateau Desert Facts
Total Size:
130,000 square miles
Primary Drainage:
Colorado river, Rio Grande river
Secondary Drainage:
Green, San Juan, Little Colorado, Pecos rivers.
Biome:
High Desert with scattered mountain top forested areas.
(m2cont-nam-00-arizona) Basin and Range: Colorado Plateau Ecoregion, Arizona
Colorado Plateau Desert: Arizona
Location:
Geographical Region:
Basin and Range
Ecoregion:
Colorado Plateau (2I)
Arizona is one of only two states which is entirely within the Basin and Range Region. However, there are six ecoregions which are within the state boundaries, including the Colorado Plateau Ecoregion. It is this ecoregion that is also the Colorado Plateau desert within Arizona.
The Colorado Desert in Arizona expands south and west from the northeast corner of the state. From the four corners location this desert travel west along the top of the state until it connects with the Mojave Basin ecoregion and south until it connects with the Escarpment Ecoregion,
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