Sonora ( Eng. Sonoran Desert ; Spanish Desierto de Sonora ; also known as the Hila Desert) is a sandy-rocky desert in North America located in the US-Mexico border in the US states of Arizona and California , and in the Mexican states of Lower California and Sonora , north of the Gulf of California .
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| Square | 260,000 km² |
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| Regions | California , Arizona , Baja California , Sonora |
Sonora is one of the largest and hottest deserts of North America , according to various estimates, the area ranges from 260,000 km² [1] [2] to 355,000 km² [3] ; it also includes the deserts of Hume , Juha and Colorado , Lechugilia , Tula , Altar . Precipitation falls here from 75 to 380 mm per year, mostly in winter and spring. The desert is home to 60 species of mammals, 350 species of birds, 20 species of amphibians, more than a hundred species of reptiles, 30 species of fish and more than 2,000 species of plants. Endemic to the Sonoran desert is the giant saguaro cactus.
In the desert area of Arizona, Saguaro National Park is located. In the heart of the Sonoran desert is the city of Phoenix - the capital of Arizona .
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Plants
- Agave species: Agave bracteosa , Agave parryi , Agave vilmoriniana , Agave lechuguilla
- Argemone pleiacantha
- Bearberry species: Arctostaphylos pringlei , Arctostaphylos pungens
- Dalea emoryi , Dalea parryi , Dalea spinosa
- Delphinium scaposum
- Eremalche rotundifolia
- Types of fuquieria : Fouquieria columnaris , Fouquieria splendens
- Small-leaved cramer ( Krameria parvifolia )
- Larrey tridentata ( Larrea tridentata )
- Hanging Linantus ( Linanthus demissus )
- Ladivnets hard ( Lotus rigidus )
- Opuntia Bottom ( Opuntia basilaris ), Opuntia tricoloris ( Cylindropuntia imbricata )
- Cilindropuntia Bigelow ( Cylindropuntia bigelovii ), Cylindropuntia sparkling ( Cylindropuntia fulgida )
- Phacelia distant ( Phacelia distans )
- Single-leaved Pine ( Pinus monophylla )
- Types of prose : Prosopis glandulosa , Prosopis pubescens , Prosopis velutina
- Types of willow : Salix bonplandiana , Salix exigua , Salix gooddingii
- Salvia columbariae
- Types of a groundberry : Senecio douglasii , Senecio lemmoni , Senecio neomexicanus , Senecio quercetorum
- Senna Coesii
- Jojoba ( Simmondsia chinensis )
- Yucca broadleaf ( Yucca baccata ), Yucca short-leaved ( Yucca brevifolia ), Yucca high ( Yucca elata ), Yucca chips ( Yucca schidigera )
Minerals
In the desert, a deposit of achite was found [4] - a rare low-value silicate mineral.
In culture
- The name of the desert became famous throughout the world thanks to the books of Carlos Castaneda , Don Juan 's Teaching: The Way of Knowledge of the Yaki Indians and others, which take place in the Sonoran Desert, and one of the main characters is the Yaki shaman living in her region [5] .
- "Saturday, April 14, 1962
- Don Juan weighed our pumpkin flasks with provisions on hand and said it was time to go back home because stocks were running out. As if by the way, I noticed that we could get to his house no sooner than in a couple of days. He said that he was not going to his home, to Sonora, but to one border town where he had business. ”
- In Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi film “ Close Contact of the Third Kind ” (1977), one of the inexplicable phenomena that preceded contact with a UFO allegedly happened in the Sonoran Desert: a squadron of airplanes without crews appeared on earth — the 19th training flight machine without a trace missing in December 1945.
Notes
- ↑ Sonoran Desert - Sonoran Desert Region
- ↑ Sonoran Desert Song - National Geographic
- ↑ Desert, 1986 .
- Encyclopedia. Jewelry Encyclopedia. Ahoit Ahroit. Ashberg Asher Joseph. Asher Cut (inaccessible link) . The appeal date is February 18, 2011. Archived March 1, 2010.
- ↑ CARLOS CUSTANA. TRAVELING TO ICSTLAN. Chapter 16. The Ring of Power
Literature
- Babaev A.G. , Zonn I.S. , Drozdov N.N. , Freykin Z.G. Pustyn. - M .: Thought, 1986. - P. 195-203. - 320 s. - (Nature of the world). - 100 000 copies