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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Chihuahuan Desert

                  Chihuahuan Desert is a desert, and an ecoregion designation, that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border in the central and northern portions of the Mexican Plateau, bordered on the west by the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range, and overlaying northern portions of the east range, the Sierra Madre Oriental. 
                   The Chihuahuan Desert is higher in elevation than the Sonoran Desert to the west, mostly varying from 600–1,675 m (1,969–5,495 ft) in altitude. As a result, it tends to have a slightly milder climate in the summer (though usually daytime June temperatures are in the range of 35 to 40 °C or 95 to 104 °F). Winter weather varies from relatively mild to quite cold depending on altitude and the ferocity of northerly winds. Precipitation is somewhat more abundant than most of the southern Great Basin , the Sonoran, and Mojave deserts, however it is still usually less than 254 millimeters (10.0 in) per year.

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biosci.missouri.edu          k-state.edu          geophiliac.wordpress.com           summitpost.org         finallynewellin.blogspot.com           aneyefortexas.wordpress.com           nationalparkguides.com
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