The Mohawk Valley is a valley in the lower regions of the western

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 ...

in southwestern

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in the western

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 Ariz ...

. The Mohawk Valley along the Gila River proper contains the agricultural communities of Wellton, Noah,

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, and

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. This river stretch of the valley is mostly east-west trending, and extends northeasterly upstream to the adjacent

Hyder Valley The Hyder Valley is a 20-mile (32 km) long valley section of the Gila River Valley west of Hyder on the Gila River. The valley is located north of Gila River in southwest Arizona in the northwestern Sonoran Desert. The Park Valley, which cro ...

; to the west the Gila River turns northwest through the

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which lies between the Gila Mountains and the

Muggins Mountains Wilderness The Muggins Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located approximately east of Yuma, Arizona in the Muggins Mountains and adjacent to the agricultural ''Dome Valley'' and Gila River. The wilderness area ...

on the northeast. The southern portion of the Mohawk Valley is an extensive plain extending south, and uphill towards Sonora, Mexico and the valley extends, on its eastern end, southwards, ending at the Tule Desert and the

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 ...

on the west; the eastern side of this southern stretch of the valley is bordered by the

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and

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 ...

. Much of this part of the valley is in the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range.

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High Altitude view of Mohawk Mountains and Mohawk Valleyhigh-definition aerial view
– The green Gila River Valley on right, view northwest: shows

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 ...

and

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 ...

; narrow Gila Mountains at distance.
At extreme right bottom is the north end of the Granite Mountains, and the large mountain range northwest of it, the Mohawk Mountains. {{Coord, 32.686, -114.194, display=title Valleys of Arizona Landforms of Yuma County, Arizona

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