The Hyder Valley is a 20-mile (32 km) long valley section of the

Gila River Valley The Gila River Valley is a multi-sectioned valley of the Gila River, located primarily in Arizona. The Gila River forms in western New Mexico and flows west across southeastern, south-central, and southwestern Arizona; it changes directions as i ...

west of Hyder on the

Gila River The Gila River (; O'odham ima Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil) is a tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid watershed of n ...

. The valley is located north of Gila River in southwest

Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...

in the northwestern

Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert ( es, Desierto de Sonora) is a desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the southwestern United States (in Arizona ...

. The

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, which crosses the Gila borders to the southwest; the Hyder Valley is the access route to the

Dendora Valley The Dendora Valley is a small valley on the Gila River west of Painted Rock Dam and Reservoir, Arizona, United States. The valley is north of the river, and is the valley west of the north–south Painted Rock Mountains which form the western e ...

northeast which is on the western border of the Painted Rock Dam and

Reservoir A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including contro ...

. The Hyder Valley lies on the northwest side of the Gila River, and both trend southwest–northeast. The

Palomas Mountains The Palomas Mountains (Yavapai: Hakiñur) is a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. Palomas is the Spanish word for white-winged doves which were found in the settlement of Palomas in the 1890's. The range is found around ...

are on the west, and the

Palomas Plain Palomas may refer to: Places * Palomas (Madrid), a ward of the Hortaleza district, Madrid, Spain * Palomas, Arizona, a community in the United States * Palomas, Badajoz, Spain, a town * Palomas, Comerío, Puerto Rico, a barrio in Comerío, a munici ...

, which drains three other mountain ranges, and the eastern portion of the

Kofa National Wildlife Refuge The Kofa National Wildlife Refuge is located in Arizona in the southwestern United States, northeast of Yuma and southeast of Quartzsite. The refuge, established in 1939 to protect desert bighorn sheep, encompasses over of the Yuma Desert regi ...

, lies to the north; Face Mountain and the

Gila Bend Mountains The Gila Bend Mountains are a long mountain range of the north-central Sonoran Desert southwest of Phoenix, Arizona and in southwest Maricopa County. The Gila River of New Mexico and Arizona transects the entire state of Arizona, and the water ...

are northeast. On the south side of the Gila River, to the southeast lies the

Sentinel Plain The Sentinel Plain is an extensive northwest–southeast trending plain south of the Gila River Valley in southwestern Arizona, USA. It is centered on the community of Sentinel, Arizona located on Interstate 8, approximately west of Gila Bend. T ...

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Gila River Valleys of Arizona Landforms of Yuma County, Arizona Landforms of Maricopa County, Arizona {{Arizona-geo-stub