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List Of Madrean Sky Island Mountain Ranges – Sonoran – Chihuahuan Deserts
This is a list of mountain ranges in the Madrean Sky Islands ecoregion within the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of the Southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. The list is presented both alphabetically and by political territory. The elevation (in feet) of the highest point in each range is indicated in parentheses. Alphabetical list *Animas Mountains (8565)—Hidalgo County, New Mexico *Atascosa Mountains (6440)—Santa Cruz County, Arizona * Baboquivari Mountains (Arizona) (7730)—Pima County, Arizona *Chiricahua Mountains (9759)—Cochise County, Arizona *Dos Cabezas Mountains (8354)—Cochise County, Arizona *Dragoon Mountains (7512)—Cochise County, Arizona *Galiuro Mountains (7663)—Cochise, Graham, and Gila counties, Arizona) *Guadalupe Mountains (5280)—Hidalgo County, New Mexico, and Cochise County, Arizona *Huachuca Mountains (9466)—Cochise and Santa Cruz counties, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico *Little Dragoon Mountains (6588)—Cochise County, Arizona * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrean Sky Islands
The Madrean Sky Islands are enclaves of Madrean pine–oak woodlands, found at higher elevations in a complex of small mountain ranges in southern and southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico. The sky islands are surrounded at lower elevations by the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts. The northern west–east perimeter of the sky island region merges into the higher elevation eastern Mogollon Rim and the White Mountains of eastern Arizona (southern Anasazi region). The sky islands are the northernmost of the Madrean pine–oak woodlands, and are classified as part of the Sierra Madre Occidental pine–oak forests ecoregion, of the tropical and subtropical coniferous forests biome. The sky islands were isolated from one another and from the pine–oak woodlands of the Sierra Madre Occidental to the south by the warming and drying of the climate since the ice ages. There are approximately 27 Madrean sky islands in the United States, and 15 in northern M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
