Sierra de Los Cucapah is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

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 ...

state, Northwestern Mexico. It is located south of

Mexicali Mexicali (; ) is the capital city of the Mexican state of Baja California. The city, seat of the Mexicali Municipality, has a population of 689,775, according to the 2010 census, while the Calexico–Mexicali metropolitan area is home to 1,000, ...

. The range is named after the Cocopah who arrived in the area around 700 b.c and still live in the area. The Sierra de los Cucapah are north-south trending mountains of the

Peninsular Ranges The Peninsular Ranges (also called the Lower California province) are a group of mountain ranges that stretch from Southern California to the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula; they are part of the North American Coast Ranges, which ...

between the

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basin to the west and the Cerro Prieto Volcano and

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to the east. The geothermal field is south of Mexicali.Alles, David L., ''Geology of the Salton Trough''
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Location

The location in relation to Mexicali is discernable in the aerial photograph at right, as the Sierra is visible in the lower left.

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References

Mountain ranges of Baja California Peninsular Ranges {{BajaCalifornia-geo-stub