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List Of Mountain Ranges Of Yuma County, Arizona
A list of mountain ranges of Yuma County, Arizona. '' Yuma, Arizona Winterhaven, California'' is on the Colorado River in the southern section of the Lower Colorado River Valley. Adjacent notable towns at this confluence of CaliforniaArizona, and Baja CaliforniaSonora, are Los Algodones, Baja California, and San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora. Alphabetical list * Agua Caliente MountainsYuma County * Aguila MountainsYuma County * Bryan MountainsYuma County * Butler MountainsYuma County * Cabeza Prieta MountainsYuma County * Castle Dome MountainsYuma County * Copper MountainsYuma County * Gila Mountains (Yuma County)Yuma County * Kofa MountainsN. Yuma County(S. La Paz County) * Laguna Mountains (Arizona)Yuma County (see also: Laguna Mountains(Calif)) * Little Horn MountainsS. La Paz County(N. Yuma County) * Middle MountainsS. La Paz County(N. Yuma County) * Mohawk MountainsYuma County * Muggins MountainsYuma County * New Water MountainsS. La Paz County(connected to Kofa Mountains, N. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuma County, Arizona
Yuma County is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population was 203,881. The county seat is Yuma. Yuma County includes the Yuma, Arizona Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county borders three states: Sonora, Mexico, to the south, and two other states to the west, across the Colorado River: California of the United States and the Mexican state of Baja California. Being 63.8% Hispanic in 2020, Yuma is Arizona's largest majority-Hispanic county. History Long settled by Native Americans of indigenous cultures for thousands of years, this area was controlled by the Spanish Empire in the colonial era. In the 19th century, it was part of independent Mexico before the Mexican–American War and Gadsden Purchase. Yuma County was one of four original Arizona counties created by the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislature. The county territory was defined as being west of longitude 113° 20' and south of the Bill Williams River ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laguna Mountains
The Laguna Mountains are a mountain range of the Peninsular Ranges System in eastern San Diego County, southern California. The mountains run in a northwest/southeast alignment for approximately . The mountains have long been inhabited by the indigenous Kumeyaay people. Geography The Laguna Mountains are bordered by the Cuyamaca Mountains area on the west and the Colorado Desert on the east, where the mountains form a steep escarpment along the Laguna Salada Fault. To the north the Laguna Mountains are bounded by the Elsinore Fault Zone and to the south by Cameron Valley and Thing Valley. The highest point is Cuyapaipe Mountain at . The mountains are largely contained within the Cleveland National Forest. Snow falls on the highest peaks several times a year. Mount Laguna is a village in the Laguna Mountains with a population of about 80. The headwaters of three perennial streams begin in the Laguna Mountains: Noble Creek, Cottonwood Creek, and Kitchen Creek. The Laguna Moun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valley And Range Sequence-Southern Yuma County
The Valley and range sequence-Southern Yuma County is a ''3-Valley'' sequence of NW–by–SE trending block faulted valleys and mountains. About eleven major mountain ranges connect to each other in four, (mostly parallel), mountain sequences. This regional parallel valley-mountain sequence ends at the Gila River valley at the north; to the south, it extends to the Gran Desierto de Altar of northwestern Mexico; the sequence is a remnant of the Basin and Range system. List of valleys * ''Coyote Wash'' and Lechuguilla Desert * Mohawk Valley (Arizona) * San Cristobal Valley Table of mountain ranges The three valleys lay mostly between these perimeter mountain sequences. See also * Fault-block mountain Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust. Large areas of bedrock are broken up into blocks by faults. Blocks are characterized by relat ... External links U.S. Bur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tule Mountains
The Tule Mountains is a mountain range in Yuma County, Arizona. There is a diverse flora and fauna population within the Tule Mountains; one of the notable trees found in this mountain range is the elephant tree (''Bursera microphylla ''Bursera microphylla'', known by the common name elephant tree in English or 'torote' in Spanish, is a tree in genus ''Bursera''. It grows into a distinctive sculptural form, with a thickened, water-storing or caudiciform trunk. It is found in ...'').C. Michael Hogan. 2009 See also * Gila Mountains References * Will Croft Barnes and Byrd H. Granger. 1960. ''Arizona place names'', p. 511 * C. Michael Hogan. 2009''Elephant Tree: Bursera microphylla'', GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. N. Stromberg Notes {{Coord, 32.1858953, -113.7938144, format=dms, display=title Mountain ranges of Arizona Mountain ranges of Yuma County, Arizona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
