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The Virgin Mountains are a
The Virgin Mountains are 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 ...
of the northeastern 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 ...
, located in Clark County, southeastern Nevada and 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 ...
, northwestern Arizona.
Geography
Virgin Peak, at in elevation, is the highest point in the range. The range is northeast ofLake Mead
Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, east of Las Vegas. It is the largest reservoir in the US in terms of water capacity. ...
, and around south of the Nevada town of Mesquite
Mesquite is a common name for several plants in the genus ''Prosopis'', which contains over 40 species of small leguminous trees. They are native to dry areas in the Americas.
They have extremely long roots to seek water from very far under grou ...
.
Hydrologically, the range is located in the Lower Colorado—Lake Mead
Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, east of Las Vegas. It is the largest reservoir in the US in terms of water capacity. ...
watershed
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Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
. (USGS
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Huc 1501),
91.6% of the range is managed by the Bureau of Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands. Headquartered in Washington DC, and with oversight over , it governs one eighth of the country's la ...
, with a section of the Virgin Peak area designated within the BLM Virgin Mountain Natural Area.
Natural history
The range has many species oflizard
Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 7,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic since it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia alt ...
s, as well as the Panamint rattlesnake and glossy snake
''Arizona elegans'' is a species of medium-sized colubrid snake commonly referred to as the glossy snake or the faded snake, which is endemic to the southwestern United States and Mexico. It has several subspecies. Some have recommended that ''A. ...
. Trees found in the range include Single-leaf pinyon pine (''Pinus monophylla''), Arizona cypress (''Cupressus arizonica''), White fir (''Abies concolor''), Douglas fir (''Pseudotsuga menziesii''), and Utah juniper (''Juniperus osteosperma''), and Rocky Mountain juniper (''Juniperus scopulorum''). The range has one endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
species of stick insect
The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida, Phasmatoptera or Spectra) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walking sticks, stick animals, or bug sticks. They are also occasionally referred to as ...
, ''Timema nevadense
''Timema nevadense'', the Nevada timema, is a species of walkingstick in the family Timematidae. It is found in North America.
References
Phasmatodea
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Insects described in 1966
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''.Strohecker, H. F. 1966. New ''Timema'' from Nevada and Arizona. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 42: 25-26
See also
*Virgin Valley
The Virgin Valley is a valley in northwest Arizona and southeast Nevada on the Virgin River. The Virgin River drains southwest Utah and southeast Nevada; parts of Arizona, especially the Arizona Strip region drain southwards into the Virgin River ...
*Virgin River
The Virgin River is a tributary of the Colorado River in the U.S. states of Utah, Nevada, and Arizona. The river is about long.Calculated with Google Maps and Google Earth It was designated Utah's first wild and scenic river in 2009, during the ...
*Virgin River Gorge
The Virgin River Gorge, located between St. George, Utah, and Beaver Dam, Arizona, is a long canyon that has been carved out by the Virgin River in northwest Arizona. The Virgin River rises on the Colorado Plateau and created the topography of b ...
* Virgin River Narrows
*South Virgin Mountains
The South Virgin Mountains are a smaller mountain range of the eastern Mojave Desert, in Clark County, southeastern Nevada.
They are located south of the larger Virgin Mountains range, east of the Virgin River leg of Lake Mead, and west of the Ar ...
References
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* {{authority control Mountain ranges of Nevada Mountain ranges of Arizona Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert Mountain ranges of Clark County, Nevada Mountain ranges of Mohave County, Arizona Protected areas of the Mojave Desert Bureau of Land Management areas in Arizona Bureau of Land Management areas in Nevada