A List of mountain ranges of the Sonoran Desert. Many of the mountains of southern
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 ...
are included, excluding the
Madrean Sky Island ranges of southeast Arizona, extreme southwest
New Mexico
)
, population_demonym = New Mexican ( es, Neomexicano, Neomejicano, Nuevo Mexicano)
, seat = Santa Fe
, LargestCity = Albuquerque
, LargestMetro = Tiguex
, OfficialLang = None
, Languages = English, Spanish ( New Mexican), Navajo, Ker ...
, or northeast
Sonora
Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is d ...
,
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
.
The
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert ( ; mov, Hayikwiir Mat'aar; es, Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Southwestern United States. It is named for the indigenous Mojave people. It is located primarily in ...
lies to the northwest; also in the northwest and west are mountain ranges of the lower elevation
Colorado Desert
California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella and Imperial valleys. It is home to many unique flora and fauna.
Geography and geology
The Colorado De ...
, (west of the north-south section of the
Colorado River
The Colorado River ( es, Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The river drains an expansive, arid drainage basin, watershed that encompasses parts of ...
of the
Lower
Lower may refer to:
*Lower (surname)
*Lower Township, New Jersey
*Lower Receiver (firearms)
*Lower Wick
Lower Wick is a small hamlet located in the county of Gloucestershire, England. It is situated about five miles south west of Dursley, eight ...
Colorado River
The Colorado River ( es, Río Colorado) is one of the principal rivers (along with the Rio Grande) in the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The river drains an expansive, arid drainage basin, watershed that encompasses parts of ...
Valley
A valley is an elongated low area often running between Hill, hills or Mountain, mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers ...
, in the southeast California deserts.)
Mountain ranges on the
Baja California Peninsula east of the cordillera spine mountains are included. The middle section of the peninsula is the ''
Vizcaino Desert''; a few ranges are from the very south in
Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur (; 'South Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur), is the least populated state and the 31st admitted state of the 32 federal ent ...
.
Alphabetical list
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Agua Caliente Mountains
The Agua Caliente Mountains are a small range in eastern Yuma and western Maricopa counties in southwest Arizona. The community of Hyder is on the north side of the range adjacent to the Union Pacific rail line and Hyder Road. The community o ...
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Aguila Mountains
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Belmont Mountains
The Belmont Mountains are a 25 mi (40 km) long, arid, low elevation mountain range about 50 mi west of Phoenix, Arizona in the northern Sonoran Desert, north of the Gila River. The range is in the south of a region of two parallel ...
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Big Horn Mountains (Arizona)
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Big Maria Mountains
The Big Maria Mountains are located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, near the Colorado River and Arizona. The range lies between Blythe and Vidal, and west of U.S. Route 95 in California and east of Midland. The mountains ...
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Little Maria Mountains
The Little Maria Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States. The range lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction east of the Palen Mountains and west of the Big Maria Mountains. The mountain range is approximately 15 m ...
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Bryan Mountains
The Bryan Mountains are a small mountain range in the northwestern Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona. The range is located in southeastern Yuma County, about southeast of Yuma and about west of Ajo. The range is approximately ten miles ...
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Buckskin Mountains (Arizona)
The Buckskin Mountains is a mountain range in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. The range lies just east of the north–south Colorado River, and borders south of the east–west, west-flowing Bill Williams River.
Description
The range is ...
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Bradshaw Mountains
The Bradshaw Mountains ( yuf-x-yav, Wi:kañacha, "rough, black range of rocks") are a mountain range in central Arizona, United States, named for brothers Isaac and William D. Bradshaw after their deaths, having been formerly known in English as ...
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Cabeza Prieta Mountains
The Cabeza Prieta Mountains are a mountain range in the northwestern Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It is located in southern Yuma County, Arizona.
The mountain range is amongst an eleven-mountain sequence of north-trending ranges and va ...
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Cargo Muchacho Mountains
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Castle Dome Mountains
The Castle Dome Mountains (Tolkepaya Yavapai: Wi:hopuʼ) are a mountain range in Yuma County, Arizona, within the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Castle Dome Peak, the high point of the range, is a prominent butte and distinctive landmark. The p ...
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Chocolate Mountains
The Chocolate Mountains of California are located in Imperial County, California, Imperial and Riverside County, California, Riverside counties in the Colorado Desert of Southern California. The mountains stretch more than 60 miles (100 km) ...
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Chocolate Mountains (Arizona)
The Chocolate Mountains of Arizona, USA, are located in the southwestern part of the state east of the Trigo Mountains and southwest of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The mountains are located about east of the Chocolate Mountains of Calif ...
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Chuckwalla Mountains
The Chuckwalla Mountains are a mountain range in the transition zone between the Colorado Desert—Sonoran Desert and the Mojave Desert, climatically and vegetationally, in Riverside County of southern California.
Geography
The range spans abou ...
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Copper Mountains
The Copper Mountains is a minor north–south trending mountain range, only 8 miles long in southwestern Arizona in the southwestern Sonoran Desert.
The Copper Mountains lie east of Yuma, Arizona and east of the Yuma Desert; also east of the ...
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Crater Range
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Dome Rock Mountains
The Dome Rock Mountains are a mountain range in southern La Paz County, Arizona. The range borders the Colorado River on the west and the Colorado River Indian Reservation on the northwest located in the Lower Colorado River Valley. Quartzsite, ...
*
Eagletail Mountains
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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 ...
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Gila Mountains (Yuma County)
The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a 26-mile (42 km) long mountain range in southwestern Arizona in the northwest Sonoran Desert.
The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a northwest-southeast trending mountain system. The fault-blocked ...
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Goldfield Mountains
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Granite Wash Mountains
The Granite Wash Mountains are a short, arid, low elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County. The range borders a slightly larger range southeast, the Little Harquahala Mountains; both ranges form a sec ...
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Harcuvar Mountains
The Harcuvar Mountains (Yavapai: Ahakuwa) are a narrow mountain range in western-central Arizona, United States. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River, from Alamo ...
–NE. La Paz County -- (SW. Yavapai County)
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Harquahala Mountains
The Harquahala Mountains ( Yavapai: ʼHakhe:la) are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, United States and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from the Yavapai 'ʼHakhe:la", which means "r ...
–E. La Paz County -- (W. Maricopa County)
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Little Harquahala Mountains
The Little Harquahala Mountains are a small, arid, low-elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County.
The range is northwest-by-southeast-trending and is in a region of about thirty landforms, plains, val ...
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Hieroglyphic Mountains
The Hieroglyphic Mountains are a mountain range located in central Arizona. The Hieroglyphics roughly straddle the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties and form an effective physical barrier northwest of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Du ...
–Maricopa County -- (some in S. Yavapai County)
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Kofa Mountains
The Kofa Mountains (Yavapai: Wi:kasayeo) of Yuma and La Paz counties in Arizona is the central mountain range of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The range lies about 60 miles northeast of Yuma in the southwestern part of the state. Kofa W ...
–N. Yuma County - (S. La Paz County)
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Laguna Mountains (Arizona)
The Laguna Mountains are a small, approximately circular mountain range of extreme southwest Arizona northeast of Yuma and east of Winterhaven, California on the Colorado River. The Colorado forms the western perimeter of the mountains; Mittry L ...
–Yuma County (see also:
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 i ...
(Calif))
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Little Buckskin Mountains
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt
* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
*The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...
*
Little Harquahala Mountains
The Little Harquahala Mountains are a small, arid, low-elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County.
The range is northwest-by-southeast-trending and is in a region of about thirty landforms, plains, val ...
**
Harquahala Mountains
The Harquahala Mountains ( Yavapai: ʼHakhe:la) are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, United States and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from the Yavapai 'ʼHakhe:la", which means "r ...
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Little Horn Mountains
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt
* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
*The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...
–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County) )
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Little Maria Mountains
The Little Maria Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States. The range lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction east of the Palen Mountains and west of the Big Maria Mountains. The mountain range is approximately 15 m ...
*
Little Mule Mountains
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Mule Mountains (California)
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Big Maria Mountains
The Big Maria Mountains are located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, near the Colorado River and Arizona. The range lies between Blythe and Vidal, and west of U.S. Route 95 in California and east of Midland. The mountains ...
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Maricopa Mountains
Maricopa Mountains are a range of mountains in Maricopa County, Arizona.The range runs from and extends southeastward to . The range is protected as the North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness and South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness, divided by A ...
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Mazatzal Mountains
The Mazatzal Mountains (MAH-zaht-ZAL, locally Ma-tuh-ZEL) are a mountain range in south central Arizona, about 30–45 miles northeast of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The origin of the name remains obscure but one possibility is that it is from ...
–Southeast Yavapai County -- (and N. Maricopa, W. Gila County) )
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McCoy Mountains
The McCoy Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States. The southeast terminus of the range lies adjacent the western edge of the Parker Valley in a southern stretch of the Lower Colorado River Valley corridor.
Geography ...
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McDowell Mountains
The McDowell Mountain Range (Yavapai: Wi:kajasa) is located about twenty miles north-east of downtown Phoenix, Arizona, and may be seen from most places throughout the city. The range is composed of miocene deposits left nearly five million years ...
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Middle Mountains
Middle or The Middle may refer to:
* Centre (geometry), the point equally distant from the outer limits.
Places
* Middle (sheading), a subdivision of the Isle of Man
* Middle Bay (disambiguation)
* Middle Brook (disambiguation)
* Middle Creek ( ...
–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County)
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Mohawk Mountains
The Mohawk Mountains ( mrc, Vii Kachkwiny, ood, Kusvo To:b) is a mountain range in the northwest Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It abuts the western Gila River valley to the north (the Lower Gila River Valley), and is located in southern ...
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Muggins Mountains
The Muggins Mountains is a mountain range in southwest Arizona east of Yuma, Arizona, Yuma, Arizona, northeast of the Gila Mountains (Yuma County), Gila Mountains, and east of the Laguna Mountains (Arizona), Laguna Mountains. The Castle Dome Mo ...
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Mule Mountains (California)
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Little Mule Mountains
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New Water Mountains
The New Water Mountains is a mountain range in southwestern Arizona. The range is on the northern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge as well as the northern Kofa Mountains.
It is a northwest–southeast trending range, about long. T ...
–S. La Paz County -- (connected to
Kofa Mountains
The Kofa Mountains (Yavapai: Wi:kasayeo) of Yuma and La Paz counties in Arizona is the central mountain range of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The range lies about 60 miles northeast of Yuma in the southwestern part of the state. Kofa W ...
, N. Yuma County)
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Nopah Range
The Nopah Range is a mountain range located in Inyo County, California, United States, near the eastern border with Nevada.
Geography
The mountain range lies east of the adjacent Resting Spring Range, the Owlshead Mountains and lower Death Valley ...
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Painted Rock Mountains
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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 ...
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Plomosa Mountains
The Plomosa Mountains are a mountain range in La Paz County, Arizona, running generally south of Bouse, Arizona near the Arizona/California border. Quartzsite lies to the west across the La Posa Plain. The Harcuvar Mountains and Little Harquah ...
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Phoenix Mountains
The Phoenix Mountains are a mountain range located in central Phoenix, Arizona. With the exception of Mummy Mountain, they are part of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. They serve as a municipal park and offer hiking, mountain biking and equestria ...
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Riverside Mountains
The Riverside Mountains are a mountain range in Riverside County, California. The town of Vidal, California is located in the West Riverside Mountains.
Geography
The Riverside Mountains are in the Colorado Desert, in the Lower Colorado River V ...
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Sand Tank Mountains
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Salt River Mountains
The South Mountains (O'odham language, O'odham: ''Muhaḍagĭ Doʼag'', Yavapai language, Yavapai: ''Wi:ki'tiyeda'', mrc, Vii Kwxas), known locally as simply South Mountain, is a mountain range in central Arizona in south Phoenix, Arizona. It is ...
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Sierra Arida
Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and "saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following:
Places Mountains and mountain ranges
* Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico
* Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range i ...
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Sierra de la Lechuguilla
Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and "saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following:
Places Mountains and mountain ranges
* Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico
* Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range i ...
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Sierra Estrella
The Sierra Estrella ( ood, Komaḍk, mrc, Vii Lyxa, yuf-x-yav, Wi:kchasa) is a mountain range located southwest of Phoenix, Arizona. Much of the range falls within the Gila River Indian Reservation, but of BLM land is protected as the Sier ...
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Sierra Pinta
The Sierra Pinta or Sierra Pintas (colloquial Spanish for 'Painted Mountains') are a narrow remote block faulted northwest-southeast trending mountain range, about long located in southwestern Arizona in the arid northwestern Sonoran Desert, ju ...
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Silver Bell Mountains
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West Silver Bell Mountains
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Tank Mountains
The Tank Mountains (Yavapai: Hakimatava) are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona; the range is part of the southeastern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.
The Tank Mountains are east–west trending and about lo ...
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Tinajas Altas Mountains
The Tinajas Altas Mountains (O'odham: Uʼuva:k or Uʼuv Oopad) are an extremely arid northwest–southeast trending mountain range in southern Yuma County, Arizona, approximately 35 mi southeast of Yuma, Arizona. The southern end of the range ...
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Trigo Mountains
The Trigo Mountains are a north-south trending mountain range in La Paz County, Arizona, bordering the Colorado River on the east in the Lower Colorado River Valley. The range lies north of the Colorado River as it turns east, north of Martin ...
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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 ...
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Turtle Mountains (California)
The Turtle Mountains (Amat 'Achii'ar in the Mojave language), are located in northeastern San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino County, in the southeastern part of California. The colorful Turtle Mountains vary from deep reds, browns ...
-(borders the Mojave Desert)
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Usery Mountains
Usury () is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans that unfairly enrich the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes—or in a legal sense, where an interest rate is ch ...
–Maricopa County -- (See:
Usery Mountain Recreation Area
Usury () is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans that unfairly enrich the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes—or in a legal sense, where an interest rate is ch ...
.)
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Vulture Mountains
The Vulture Mountains is a long, arid, low-elevation mountain range located in northwest Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is in the north perimeter region of the Sonoran Desert. The Arizona transition zone mountain ranges lie north a ...
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Waterman Mountains
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West Silver Bell Mountains
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Silver Bell Mountains
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Whipple Mountains
The Whipple Mountains ( Mojave: Avii Kur'utat; Chemehuevi: Wiyaatuʷa̱) are located in eastern San Bernardino County, California. They are directly west of the Colorado River, Parker Dam, and Lake Havasu; south of Needles, California; north of ...
-(borders the Mojave Desert)
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White Tank Mountains
The White Tank Mountains are a mountain range in central Arizona. The mountains are on the western periphery of the Phoenix metropolitan area, primarily flanked by the suburban cities of Buckeye to the southwest, and Surprise to the northeast. ...
Colorado Desert
California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella and Imperial valleys. It is home to many unique flora and fauna.
Geography and geology
The Colorado De ...
, southeast Lower California
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Big Maria Mountains
The Big Maria Mountains are located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California, near the Colorado River and Arizona. The range lies between Blythe and Vidal, and west of U.S. Route 95 in California and east of Midland. The mountains ...
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Cargo Muchacho Mountains
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Chocolate Mountains
The Chocolate Mountains of California are located in Imperial County, California, Imperial and Riverside County, California, Riverside counties in the Colorado Desert of Southern California. The mountains stretch more than 60 miles (100 km) ...
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Chuckwalla Mountains
The Chuckwalla Mountains are a mountain range in the transition zone between the Colorado Desert—Sonoran Desert and the Mojave Desert, climatically and vegetationally, in Riverside County of southern California.
Geography
The range spans abou ...
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Little Maria Mountains
The Little Maria Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States. The range lies in a northwest-southeasterly direction east of the Palen Mountains and west of the Big Maria Mountains. The mountain range is approximately 15 m ...
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Little Mule Mountains
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McCoy Mountains
The McCoy Mountains are located in southeastern California in the United States. The southeast terminus of the range lies adjacent the western edge of the Parker Valley in a southern stretch of the Lower Colorado River Valley corridor.
Geography ...
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Mule Mountains (California)
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Nopah Range
The Nopah Range is a mountain range located in Inyo County, California, United States, near the eastern border with Nevada.
Geography
The mountain range lies east of the adjacent Resting Spring Range, the Owlshead Mountains and lower Death Valley ...
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Riverside Mountains
The Riverside Mountains are a mountain range in Riverside County, California. The town of Vidal, California is located in the West Riverside Mountains.
Geography
The Riverside Mountains are in the Colorado Desert, in the Lower Colorado River V ...
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Turtle Mountains (California)
The Turtle Mountains (Amat 'Achii'ar in the Mojave language), are located in northeastern San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino County, in the southeastern part of California. The colorful Turtle Mountains vary from deep reds, browns ...
-(borders the Mojave Desert)
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Whipple Mountains
The Whipple Mountains ( Mojave: Avii Kur'utat; Chemehuevi: Wiyaatuʷa̱) are located in eastern San Bernardino County, California. They are directly west of the Colorado River, Parker Dam, and Lake Havasu; south of Needles, California; north of ...
-(borders the Mojave Desert)
Mountain ranges of Mexico
Baja California
Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...
Baja California Sur
Baja California Sur (; 'South Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California Sur ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California Sur), is the least populated state and the 31st admitted state of the 32 federal ent ...
Mountain ranges of the United States
La Paz County, Arizona
The mostly east-west flowing
Bill Williams River
The Bill Williams River is a river in west-central Arizona where it, along with one of its tributaries, the Santa Maria River (Arizona), Santa Maria River, form the boundary between Mohave County, Arizona, Mohave County to the north and La Paz C ...
forms the northern border of
La Paz County, Arizona
La Paz County is the 15th county in the U.S. state of Arizona, located in the western part of the state. As of the 2020 census, its population was 16,557, making it the second-least populous county in Arizona. The county seat is Parker. Th ...
with
Mohave County
Mohave County is in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, its population was 213,267. The county seat is Kingman, and the largest city is Lake Havasu City. It is the fifth largest county in the United St ...
to the north. This is an approximate delimiting line between the
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert ( ; mov, Hayikwiir Mat'aar; es, Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Southwestern United States. It is named for the indigenous Mojave people. It is located primarily in ...
north and northwest, and to the
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 ...
to the south, east, and southeast. The
Colorado Desert
California's Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella and Imperial valleys. It is home to many unique flora and fauna.
Geography and geology
The Colorado De ...
-(subsection of the Sonoran) lies across the Colorado River to the west, but intergrades into the higher elevation Mojave Desert northwestwards.
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Buckskin Mountains (Arizona)
The Buckskin Mountains is a mountain range in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. The range lies just east of the north–south Colorado River, and borders south of the east–west, west-flowing Bill Williams River.
Description
The range is ...
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Chocolate Mountains (Arizona)
The Chocolate Mountains of Arizona, USA, are located in the southwestern part of the state east of the Trigo Mountains and southwest of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The mountains are located about east of the Chocolate Mountains of Calif ...
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Dome Rock Mountains
The Dome Rock Mountains are a mountain range in southern La Paz County, Arizona. The range borders the Colorado River on the west and the Colorado River Indian Reservation on the northwest located in the Lower Colorado River Valley. Quartzsite, ...
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Granite Wash Mountains
The Granite Wash Mountains are a short, arid, low elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County. The range borders a slightly larger range southeast, the Little Harquahala Mountains; both ranges form a sec ...
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Harcuvar Mountains
The Harcuvar Mountains (Yavapai: Ahakuwa) are a narrow mountain range in western-central Arizona, United States. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River, from Alamo ...
–NE. La Paz County -- (SW. Yavapai County)
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Harquahala Mountains
The Harquahala Mountains ( Yavapai: ʼHakhe:la) are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, United States and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from the Yavapai 'ʼHakhe:la", which means "r ...
–E. La Paz County -- (W. Maricopa County)
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Kofa Mountains
The Kofa Mountains (Yavapai: Wi:kasayeo) of Yuma and La Paz counties in Arizona is the central mountain range of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The range lies about 60 miles northeast of Yuma in the southwestern part of the state. Kofa W ...
–N. Yuma County - (S. La Paz County) )
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Little Buckskin Mountains
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt
* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
*The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...
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Little Harquahala Mountains
The Little Harquahala Mountains are a small, arid, low-elevation mountain range of western-central Arizona, in the southeast of La Paz County.
The range is northwest-by-southeast-trending and is in a region of about thirty landforms, plains, val ...
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Little Horn Mountains
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt
* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
*The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...
–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County) )
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Middle Mountains
Middle or The Middle may refer to:
* Centre (geometry), the point equally distant from the outer limits.
Places
* Middle (sheading), a subdivision of the Isle of Man
* Middle Bay (disambiguation)
* Middle Brook (disambiguation)
* Middle Creek ( ...
–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County)
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New Water Mountains
The New Water Mountains is a mountain range in southwestern Arizona. The range is on the northern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge as well as the northern Kofa Mountains.
It is a northwest–southeast trending range, about long. T ...
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Plomosa Mountains
The Plomosa Mountains are a mountain range in La Paz County, Arizona, running generally south of Bouse, Arizona near the Arizona/California border. Quartzsite lies to the west across the La Posa Plain. The Harcuvar Mountains and Little Harquah ...
*
Trigo Mountains
The Trigo Mountains are a north-south trending mountain range in La Paz County, Arizona, bordering the Colorado River on the east in the Lower Colorado River Valley. The range lies north of the Colorado River as it turns east, north of Martin ...
Maricopa County, Arizona
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Belmont Mountains
The Belmont Mountains are a 25 mi (40 km) long, arid, low elevation mountain range about 50 mi west of Phoenix, Arizona in the northern Sonoran Desert, north of the Gila River. The range is in the south of a region of two parallel ...
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Big Horn Mountains (Arizona)
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Crater Range
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Eagletail Mountains
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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 ...
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Goldfield Mountains
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Harquahala Mountains
The Harquahala Mountains ( Yavapai: ʼHakhe:la) are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, United States and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from the Yavapai 'ʼHakhe:la", which means "r ...
–E. La Paz County -- (W. Maricopa County) )
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Hieroglyphic Mountains
The Hieroglyphic Mountains are a mountain range located in central Arizona. The Hieroglyphics roughly straddle the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties and form an effective physical barrier northwest of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Du ...
–Maricopa County -- (some in S. Yavapai County)
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Maricopa Mountains
Maricopa Mountains are a range of mountains in Maricopa County, Arizona.The range runs from and extends southeastward to . The range is protected as the North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness and South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness, divided by A ...
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Mazatzal Mountains
The Mazatzal Mountains (MAH-zaht-ZAL, locally Ma-tuh-ZEL) are a mountain range in south central Arizona, about 30–45 miles northeast of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The origin of the name remains obscure but one possibility is that it is from ...
–Southeast Yavapai County -- (and N. Maricopa, W. Gila County) )
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McDowell Mountains
The McDowell Mountain Range (Yavapai: Wi:kajasa) is located about twenty miles north-east of downtown Phoenix, Arizona, and may be seen from most places throughout the city. The range is composed of miocene deposits left nearly five million years ...
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Painted Rock Mountains
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Phoenix Mountains
The Phoenix Mountains are a mountain range located in central Phoenix, Arizona. With the exception of Mummy Mountain, they are part of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. They serve as a municipal park and offer hiking, mountain biking and equestria ...
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Sand Tank Mountains
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Sierra Estrella
The Sierra Estrella ( ood, Komaḍk, mrc, Vii Lyxa, yuf-x-yav, Wi:kchasa) is a mountain range located southwest of Phoenix, Arizona. Much of the range falls within the Gila River Indian Reservation, but of BLM land is protected as the Sier ...
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Salt River Mountains
The South Mountains (O'odham language, O'odham: ''Muhaḍagĭ Doʼag'', Yavapai language, Yavapai: ''Wi:ki'tiyeda'', mrc, Vii Kwxas), known locally as simply South Mountain, is a mountain range in central Arizona in south Phoenix, Arizona. It is ...
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Usery Mountains
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Usery Mountain Recreation Area
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Vulture Mountains
The Vulture Mountains is a long, arid, low-elevation mountain range located in northwest Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is in the north perimeter region of the Sonoran Desert. The Arizona transition zone mountain ranges lie north a ...
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White Tank Mountains
The White Tank Mountains are a mountain range in central Arizona. The mountains are on the western periphery of the Phoenix metropolitan area, primarily flanked by the suburban cities of Buckeye to the southwest, and Surprise to the northeast. ...
Pima County, Arizona
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Agua Dulce Mountains
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Ajo Range
The Ajo Range is a mountain range in Pima County, Arizona
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Little Ajo Mountains
The Little Ajo Mountains is a mountain range in southern Arizona, in extreme western Pima County, Arizona. The city of Ajo sits on the northeast of this small mountain range. Both the mountain range and city take their name from the Spanish wor ...
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Alvarez Mountains
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Artesa Mountains
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Baboquivari Mountains (Arizona)–Pima County; See:
Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness or La Bestia is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountains southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Con ...
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Batamote Mountains
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Bates Mountains
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Brownell Mountains
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Castle Mountains (Arizona)
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Cerro Colorado Mountains
The Cerro Colorado Mountains are a low mountain range in southern Pima County, Arizona, USA. The highest point of the range is Colorado Peak (). The range consists of a NNW–SSE trending ridge with several shorter ridges extending off the main ...
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(on eastern border of Sonoran Desert region)
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Cimarron Mountains
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Coyote Mountains (Arizona)
The Coyote Mountains Wilderness of Arizona is part of the Coyote Mountains of southern Arizona in the center of Pima County. The wilderness lies about 40 mi southwest of Tucson,Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, pp. 86–87. in the northwest o ...
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Crooked Mountains
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Diablo Mountains (Arizona) Diablo Mountains may refer to:
* Diablo Mountains (Arizona) of Arizona
*Diablo Range, in west central California
*Sierra Diablo Mountains, in west Texas
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Empire Mountains
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Gakolik Mountains
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Granite Mountains (Arizona)
The Granite Mountains of Arizona is a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. It is located in extreme western Pima County, Arizona, bordering southeast Yuma County.
The Granite Mountains are an 18-mile (29 km) long rang ...
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Granite Mountain (Arizona)
Granite Mountain ( yuf-x-yav, ʼWi:kvte:wa) is a mountain located in Yavapai County, Arizona that covers roughly 12 square miles (31 km2). It was once known as Mount Gurley, for the first governor of the Arizona Territory, John A. Gurley. ...
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a separate "Granite Mountain" is in s. La Paz County
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Growler Mountains
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John the Baptist Mountains
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La Lesna Mountains
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Las Guijas Mountains
The Las Guijas Mountains are a small northwest–southeast trending mountain range in southern Pima County, Arizona. The range is approximately long by .''Sells, Arizona-Sonora,'' 30x60 topographic quadrangle, USGS, 1994 Surrounding ranges inclu ...
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Little Ajo Mountains
The Little Ajo Mountains is a mountain range in southern Arizona, in extreme western Pima County, Arizona. The city of Ajo sits on the northeast of this small mountain range. Both the mountain range and city take their name from the Spanish wor ...
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Ajo Range
The Ajo Range is a mountain range in Pima County, Arizona
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Mesquite Mountains
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North Comobabi Mountains
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Pozo Redondo Mountains Pozo may refer to:
People
* Alejandro Pozo (born 1999), Spanish footballer
* Angelica Pozo, American clay artist
* Arnulfo Pozo (born 1945), Ecuadorian cyclist
* Arquimedez Pozo (born 1973), Dominican baseball player
* Chano Pozo (1915–1948) ...
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Puerto Blanco Mountains
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Quijotoa Mountains
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Quinlan Mountains
The Quinlan Mountains is a mountain range in the U.S. state of Arizona. Its highest point is Kitt Peak at , which is also the second-highest peak on the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation, after Baboquivari Peak. The range lies on the eastern end ...
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(on eastern border of Sonoran Desert region-(northern extension of
Baboquivari Mountains Baboquivari may refer to:
* 2059 Baboquivari, a near-Earth asteroid
* Baboquivari Peak Wilderness, a protected area in the U.S. state of Arizona
* Baboquivari National Forest
Baboquivari National Forest was established as the Baboquivari Forest Re ...
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Roskruge Mountains
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San Luis Mountains
The San Luis Mountains are a small, lower elevation mountain range of central-southern Pima County Arizona adjacent to the U.S.-Mexico border, northeast of Sasabe, Arizona–Sasabe, Sonora.
The range is northwest-southeast trending, about in len ...
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(on eastern border of Sonoran Desert region)
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Santa Rosa Mountains (Arizona)
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Sauceda Mountains Sauceda is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*Gregorio Sauceda-Gamboa (born c. 1965), Mexican drug trafficker
*Héctor Manuel Sauceda Gamboa (died 2009), Mexican drug trafficker
*Sunny Sauceda
Sunny Sauceda is a three-time Grammy ...
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Sheridan Mountains
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Sierra Blanca Mountains
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Sierra de la Nariz
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Sierra de Santa Rosa
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Sierrita Mountains
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Sikort Chuapo Mountains
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Silver Bell Mountains
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West Silver Bell Mountains
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Sonoyta Mountains
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South Comobabi Mountains
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Tortolita Mountains
The Tortolita Mountains are a modest mountain range northwest of Tucson, Arizona, USA, at the northern boundaries of Oro Valley and Marana, two suburbs of Tucson. Peak elevation is 4,696 feet (1,431 m). Much of the mountain range is protected w ...
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(both in Madrean sky island region, and also on border of Sonoran Desert ranges-(northeast Madrean))
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Tucson Mountains
The Tucson Mountains (O'odham: Cuk Doʼag) are a minor mountain range west of Tucson, Arizona. The Tucson Mountains, including Wasson Peak, are one of four notable mountain ranges surrounding the Tucson Basin. The Santa Catalina Mountains lie ...
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Waterman Mountains
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West Silver Bell Mountains
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Silver Bell Mountains
''On Eastern border of Sonoran Desert''-(Madrean Sky Island)
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Baboquivari Mountains (Arizona)( 7730 )Pima County; See:
Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness or La Bestia is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountains southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Con ...
(on eastern border of Sonoran Desert region-(separated from the major groups of mountains by the
Altar Valley
The Altar Valley is a 45-mile (72 km) long north–south valley, trending slightly northeast from Sasabe, Arizona on the Mexico border to the Avra Valley west of the Tucson Mountains. It is delimited by Arizona State Route 86, from east-to-w ...
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Pinal County, Arizona
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Mineral Mountains, Arizona
The Mineral Mountains are a group of rugged, volcanic hills and mountains southwest of Superior and northeast of Florence in Pinal County, Arizona
Pinal County is in the central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. According to the 2020 cens ...
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Sacaton Mountains (Arizona)
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Tortolita Mountains
The Tortolita Mountains are a modest mountain range northwest of Tucson, Arizona, USA, at the northern boundaries of Oro Valley and Marana, two suburbs of Tucson. Peak elevation is 4,696 feet (1,431 m). Much of the mountain range is protected w ...
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West Silver Bell Mountains
Yavapai County, Arizona
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Bradshaw Mountains
The Bradshaw Mountains ( yuf-x-yav, Wi:kañacha, "rough, black range of rocks") are a mountain range in central Arizona, United States, named for brothers Isaac and William D. Bradshaw after their deaths, having been formerly known in English as ...
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Harcuvar Mountains
The Harcuvar Mountains (Yavapai: Ahakuwa) are a narrow mountain range in western-central Arizona, United States. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River, from Alamo ...
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Hieroglyphic Mountains
The Hieroglyphic Mountains are a mountain range located in central Arizona. The Hieroglyphics roughly straddle the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties and form an effective physical barrier northwest of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Du ...
–Maricopa County -- (some in S. Yavapai County)
Yuma County, Arizona
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Agua Caliente Mountains
The Agua Caliente Mountains are a small range in eastern Yuma and western Maricopa counties in southwest Arizona. The community of Hyder is on the north side of the range adjacent to the Union Pacific rail line and Hyder Road. The community o ...
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Aguila Mountains
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Bryan Mountains
The Bryan Mountains are a small mountain range in the northwestern Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona. The range is located in southeastern Yuma County, about southeast of Yuma and about west of Ajo. The range is approximately ten miles ...
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Cabeza Prieta Mountains
The Cabeza Prieta Mountains are a mountain range in the northwestern Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It is located in southern Yuma County, Arizona.
The mountain range is amongst an eleven-mountain sequence of north-trending ranges and va ...
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Castle Dome Mountains
The Castle Dome Mountains (Tolkepaya Yavapai: Wi:hopuʼ) are a mountain range in Yuma County, Arizona, within the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. Castle Dome Peak, the high point of the range, is a prominent butte and distinctive landmark. The p ...
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Copper Mountains
The Copper Mountains is a minor north–south trending mountain range, only 8 miles long in southwestern Arizona in the southwestern Sonoran Desert.
The Copper Mountains lie east of Yuma, Arizona and east of the Yuma Desert; also east of the ...
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Gila Mountains (Yuma County)
The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a 26-mile (42 km) long mountain range in southwestern Arizona in the northwest Sonoran Desert.
The Gila Mountains of Yuma County are a northwest-southeast trending mountain system. The fault-blocked ...
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Kofa Mountains
The Kofa Mountains (Yavapai: Wi:kasayeo) of Yuma and La Paz counties in Arizona is the central mountain range of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The range lies about 60 miles northeast of Yuma in the southwestern part of the state. Kofa W ...
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Laguna Mountains (Arizona)
The Laguna Mountains are a small, approximately circular mountain range of extreme southwest Arizona northeast of Yuma and east of Winterhaven, California on the Colorado River. The Colorado forms the western perimeter of the mountains; Mittry L ...
–Yuma County (see also:
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 i ...
(Calif))
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Little Horn Mountains
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt
* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
*The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...
–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County) )
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Middle Mountains
Middle or The Middle may refer to:
* Centre (geometry), the point equally distant from the outer limits.
Places
* Middle (sheading), a subdivision of the Isle of Man
* Middle Bay (disambiguation)
* Middle Brook (disambiguation)
* Middle Creek ( ...
–S. La Paz County -- (N. Yuma County)
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Mohawk Mountains
The Mohawk Mountains ( mrc, Vii Kachkwiny, ood, Kusvo To:b) is a mountain range in the northwest Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona. It abuts the western Gila River valley to the north (the Lower Gila River Valley), and is located in southern ...
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Muggins Mountains
The Muggins Mountains is a mountain range in southwest Arizona east of Yuma, Arizona, Yuma, Arizona, northeast of the Gila Mountains (Yuma County), Gila Mountains, and east of the Laguna Mountains (Arizona), Laguna Mountains. The Castle Dome Mo ...
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New Water Mountains
The New Water Mountains is a mountain range in southwestern Arizona. The range is on the northern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge as well as the northern Kofa Mountains.
It is a northwest–southeast trending range, about long. T ...
–S. La Paz County -- (connected to
Kofa Mountains
The Kofa Mountains (Yavapai: Wi:kasayeo) of Yuma and La Paz counties in Arizona is the central mountain range of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge. The range lies about 60 miles northeast of Yuma in the southwestern part of the state. Kofa W ...
, N. Yuma County) )
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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 ...
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Sierra Arida
Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and "saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following:
Places Mountains and mountain ranges
* Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico
* Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range i ...
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Sierra de la Lechuguilla
Sierra (Spanish for "mountain range" and "saw", from Latin '' serra'') may refer to the following:
Places Mountains and mountain ranges
* Sierra de Juárez, a mountain range in Baja California, Mexico
* Sierra de las Nieves, a mountain range i ...
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Sierra Pinta
The Sierra Pinta or Sierra Pintas (colloquial Spanish for 'Painted Mountains') are a narrow remote block faulted northwest-southeast trending mountain range, about long located in southwestern Arizona in the arid northwestern Sonoran Desert, ju ...
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Tank Mountains
The Tank Mountains (Yavapai: Hakimatava) are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona; the range is part of the southeastern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge.
The Tank Mountains are east–west trending and about lo ...
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Tinajas Altas Mountains
The Tinajas Altas Mountains (O'odham: Uʼuva:k or Uʼuv Oopad) are an extremely arid northwest–southeast trending mountain range in southern Yuma County, Arizona, approximately 35 mi southeast of Yuma, Arizona. The southern end of the range ...
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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 ...
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List of mountain ranges of Arizona
There are 210 named mountain ranges in Arizona.This list also includes mountain ranges that are mostly in New Mexico and Sonora, Mexico, that extend into Arizona.
Alphabetical list
The southeast of Arizona, with New Mexico, northwest Chihua ...
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