The Yuha Buttes are a group of

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s in the

Lower Colorado River Valley The Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV) is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Gulf of C ...

, in southern

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. The buttes are high points along a pair of en echelon northeast trending ridges in the

Yuha Desert The Yuha Desert is a section of the Sonoran Desert located in the Imperial Valley of California; south of Interstate 8, west of El Centro, and north of the international border. Unique aspects of the Yuha Desert include the Oyster Shell Beds, De An ...

north of the border about west of

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. The highest point has an elevation of which is 100 to 250 feet above the surrounding desert. Sunrise Butte (elevation 387 ft.) lies 3.5 miles south and rises above California State Route 98, the Yuha Cutoff.''Yuha Basin, California,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1957

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Buttes of California Mountain ranges of the Lower Colorado River Valley Mountain ranges of Imperial County, California {{ImperialCountyCA-geo-stub