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unusual facts about Northwestern Mexico



Cucurbita argyrosperma

It is also grown in the Sonoran Desert region of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico by native peoples, especially the Tohono O'odham, where it is especially prized when immature as a summer squash.

United States involvement in regime change

:American forces occupied New Mexico and California, then invaded parts of Northeastern Mexico and Northwestern Mexico; Another American army captured Mexico City, and the war ended in victory of the U.S.


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Aldebaran

Mexican culture: For the Seris of northwestern Mexico, this star is providing light for the seven women giving birth (Pleiades).

C. ramosissima

Cylindropuntia ramosissima, the diamond cholla or branched pencil cholla, a cactus species native to the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of the Southwestern United States, California, and Northwestern Mexico, and to Baja California and its Islas San Benito

Larrea

One of the more notable species is the Creosote Bush (L. tridentata) of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico The King Clone ring in the Mojave Desert is a Creosote Bush clonal colony estimated to be 11,700 years old.

Luis Echeverría

Echeverría's candidacy rode a wave of anger by citizens in northwestern Mexico against the United States for its use (and perceived misappropriation) of water from the Colorado River, which drains much of the U.S. southwest before crossing into Mexico.

Lycium brevipes

It is native to northwestern Mexico and it occurs in California as far as the Sonoran Desert as well as some of the Channel Islands.

N. californica

Notholaena californica, the California cloak fern, a plant species native to southern California, Arizona, and adjacent northwestern Mexico

Tarahumara salamander

The Tarhumara salamander may actually be two different species separated by the Sierra Madre Occidentental in northwestern Mexico.